Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!mips!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!adobe!heaven!heaven.woodside.ca.us From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: USENIX Summer 1991 and the absence of NeXT Message-ID: <526@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Date: 13 Jun 91 05:52:01 GMT Article-I.D.: heaven.526 References: Sender: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us Lines: 19 Steve C Donahue writes > > I am currently attending the summer USENIX conference in Nashville. The > theme of the conference is "MULTIMEDIA FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE". I was > amazed to find that NeXT does not have a vendor booth. > WAKE UP NeXT! This conference would have been a good place to increase > your exposure. NeXT doesn't think of themselves as producing a UNIX computer, alas. They think of themselves as making a personal computer (or personal workstation, if you please) that just happens to run [a flavor of] UNIX. It's too bad, in the large sense, because it's a great UNIX platform, among other things. -- Glenn Reid RightBrain Software glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us NeXT/PostScript developers ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn 415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977)