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From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
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Subject: Re: USENIX Summer 1991 and the absence of NeXT
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Date: 13 Jun 91 14:29:06 GMT
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In article <526@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:

>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.

Its too bad that they feel that way. *Everyone* that I know (including
myself) that has personally bought a NeXT platform for themselves has
done so because its a good UNIX platform FIRST, and a personal
workstation/GUI/whiz-bang box second.

For instance, the choices that we have to consider are if we're going
to buy a NeXTstation for home or a Sparcstation SLC.  We're not making
a choice between a NeXTstation and a Mac something-or-other.  They're
just not in the same catagory as far as we're concerned.

And these folks voted with their wallets; perhaps NeXT should address
their needs and their perspective a bit more.

louie