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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT as a vanilla UNIX box
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Date: 21 Jun 91 07:04:44 GMT
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In article <998@rosie.NeXT.COM>, cmac@next.com (Chris MacAskill) writes:
> I found this thread to be fascinating. It rekindled The Great Debate, at  
least  
> at my end of the hall here at NeXT.

Long before I knew I would end up doing software development for the
NeXT, I bought mine as a UNIX box.  UNIX hasn't gone out of style in 15 years,
and I figure that if everything else goes to hell in a handbasket, I can
still read netnews and write UNIX programs and live happily ever after.
I can't say that about my Mac, on the other hand, which sits in the corner
with the power off most of the time.

Of course, NeXT also has Display PostScript, without which it wouldn't
have been very interesting (to me, at least).

Just another data point for the Great Debate.

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