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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT on Campus -- How's NeXT really doing at your school?
Message-ID: <1713@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 13 Jun 91 05:51:06 GMT
References: <lh5H?zbu@cs.psu.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <lh5H?zbu@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu
	(Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>How well does NeXT seem to be gaining acceptance on college campuses?
>What is the general attitude of the computing community?  And are
>people trading in their "Macintoys"(to quote Eric Scott) and PC's for
>the NeXT?

You rang?  Here, far more Mac owners are trading up--most of the
people who have PCs have them because they can't afford anything
else.  Or it could be that Mac users can more easily see "what a
NeXT is good for."

>Here we have a lab of six NeXTs(all 040's, 5 with 8MB of RAM, 1 server
>with 16MB).

Ick!!!

>          .  The general attitude though is that NeXT isn't going to
>survive.

If that's what you're running, no wonder people are getting a bad
impression.  Go buy some RAM.  Now!!!  The performance gain will
be like getting all new machines...  (Read your Network and
System Administration manual--NeXT recommends 32MB *minimum* in
*any* server, and the clients really want at least 20MB each.)
Why settle for "Mac Classic" performance???

>          It definitely seems to be an uphill battle.  Yesterday a
>faculty member walked into our Microcomputer Order Center and they
>told him that it would be 6-8 months before he would receive his
>machine.  This definitely discouraged him(who wouldn't be?).  Have
>most people at least received their machines?  The few people around
>here that might buy a NeXT will most likely change their minds if they
>have to wait six months.  I'm certainly not going to wasted my time
>convincing people to buy the NeXT if the company can't come through.

People who order machines through our bookstore see perhaps 2-3
week turnaround times.  Your numbers sound mightly suspicious.
NeXT certainly isn't responsible for them.  Your school is f---ed.

					-=EPS=-