Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!pacbell.com!att!linac!unixhub!pfkeb From: pfkeb@kaon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Paul Kunz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: USENIX Summer 1991 and the absence of NeXT Message-ID: Date: 14 Jun 91 03:28:04 GMT References: <526@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: kaon.slac.stanford.edu In-reply-to: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us's message of 13 Jun 91 05:52:01 GMT 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. -- Glenn Reid RightBrain Software glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us NeXT/PostScript developers ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn 415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977) NeXT did run a few center-fold ads in UNIX Today! I found it curious that they were pushing Improv and other features of the machine. The ad never mentioned, however, UNIX.