Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!media-lab.media.mit.edu!adam From: adam@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Adam Glass) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT on Campus -- How's NeXT really doing at your school? Summary: pretty good, i think Message-ID: <1991Jun14.182256.27863@news.media.mit.edu> Date: 14 Jun 91 18:22:56 GMT References: Sender: adam@media-lab.media.mit.edu Distribution: comp Organization: MIT Media Laboratory Lines: 23 melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > How well does NeXT seem to be gaining acceptance on college campuses? It's doing fine here. (Here is CMU, not MIT.) We have a NeXT lab... around 20 machines, all slabs. The computer store price is the lowest I've seen at any school. They're wiring some of the dorms with thick Ethernet, so it'll be really easy to get them connected next semester. Four friends of mine are considering buying NeXTs. AFS is supposedly being ported to the NeXT. That should make things smoother down here too. > And are people trading in their "Macintoys"(to quote Eric Scott) and > PC's for the NeXT? I did -- I sold my Mac II a month before school ended so I could buy my NeXTStation. But I think it's rather immature to call macs "Macintoys" -- there are things that the Mac does better than the NeXT. There are things the NeXT does better. I decided that the things the NeXT excelled in were more important to my needs than those things the Mac excelled in. Adam