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From: mccoy@cory.berkeley.edu (Gary McCoy)
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Subject: Re: NeXT on Campus -- How's NeXT really doing at your school?
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Date: 19 Jun 91 15:23:17 GMT
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There are quite a few machines at Berkeley these days, however, there aren't  
any significant next labs at this point.  There has been a -certain- kind of  
acceptance in that professors, faculty and staff are making personal purchases  
and small lab purchases, but there aren't any large labs yet.  (Part of that  
could be that the state of California and the UC system are in the middle of  
big cutbacks to address the BIG deficit)

Also, I seem to recall that SF State's CS department has standardized on next.

Things seem to be going the way of the original macintosh when one or two brave  
pioneers brought their personal machines into departments and they began to  
take hold.

Berkeley has around 200 machines at the end of last semester.

Hope this helps.

In article <lh5H?zbu@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)  
writes:
> 
> How well does NeXT seem to be gaining acceptance on college campuses?
> What is the general attitude of the computing community?  And are
> people trading in their "Macintoys"(to quote Eric Scott) and PC's for
> the NeXT?  I've heard different things from several people, and I
> would like to know if it is as bleak at other schools as it is at Penn
> State.
> -Mike