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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: USENIX Summer 1991 and the absence of NeXT
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.085143.29619@kithrup.COM>
Date: 18 Jun 91 08:51:43 GMT
References: <1991Jun14.194907.2960@kithrup.COM> <1991Jun17.194851.18477@pensoft.uucp>
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In article <1991Jun17.194851.18477@pensoft.uucp> pensoft!kari@cs.utexas.edu writes:

First off, your posting software is broken.  From: kari@finn or somesuch is not
legal.

>Do you know of anything  
>cheaper, with about the same functionality?  

Listen *very* carefully:  I have *never* said you could get anything
resembling the NeXT for anything less than what NeXT is selling them for.
NeXT is selling a great machine at a great price.  But if *all* you want is
a unix machine for your very own, you do *not* need a NeXT.  All you need is
a '386 machine with about 100Mbytes of disk, a hercules monitor, and 4MBytes
of RAM.  You can run xenix on that *extremely* well.  It's a fine unix (or
unix-like) box, and can be had for, if you do your shopping well enough,
less than $2k (buy a used OS, for example).

If you want Mach, or NeXT Step, or a DSP, or the applications, you should
get a NeXT.  But the person I followed up to the first time said that the
NeXT was the only available cheap unix machine he could get for home.  He
was wrong.

Why don't you people *read* the original article before assuming you knew
what I was saying?

-- 
Sean Eric Fagan  | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it;
sef@kithrup.COM  |  I had a bellyache at the time."
-----------------+           -- The Turtle (Stephen King, _It_)
Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.