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From: cmac@next.com (Chris MacAskill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT as a vanilla UNIX box
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Date: 19 Jun 91 22:07:30 GMT
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I found this thread to be fascinating.  It rekindled The Great Debate, at least  
at my end of the hall here at NeXT.

Many of our dealers and customers passionately argue that we're what the 
Mac III would be if there was one; a Mac with more power that's easy to  
program, has good networking, and doesn't crash as often.

Other customers, including some of our biggest and most recent commercial ones,  
say no way; they never compared us to Apple, only to Sun.  They view us as an  
easy to use Sun with a good development environment and shrink-wrap software.

In any case, our identity certainly isn't clear out there.  I sometimes think  
we've combined the planet's best products with less-than-the-best marketing  
:-). 

If it helps, Steve is going to be keynote speaker (he's awesome at that) at  
UnixExpo and I'm going to chair a session (okay, so I'm less-than-awesome) on  
professional workstations.

Thanks,
Chris MacAskill
cmac@next.com