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From: vargish@umd5.umd.edu (Nick Vargish)
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Subject: I've seen it!
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Date: 26 Oct 88 19:52:56 GMT
Reply-To: vargish@umd5.umd.edu (Nick Vargish)
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Yesterday, at the EDUCOM conference being hosted in DC I saw the NeXT machine
in action.

Tech-specs are readily available, so I'll spare those details.

In fact, I'll just make one or three comments:

(1) I want one. I want one NOW.

(2) The hype does not do it justice.  When you first see it running, you
	will be stunned, no matter what you may have heard.  It is a very
	intense machine.

(3) Who needs color?  The resolution is so sharp that with black, white
	and two shades of grey everything is sharp enough that color is
	really not necessary.  And oh yes, Display PostScript is PLENTY
	fast.

Nick Vargish
vargish @ umd5.umd.edu

p.s. I spoke to Steve Jobs!  Transcript follows:

V : That's a sweet machine!

J : You really think so?

V : Yes... I do.  

J : Thank you.

[ How's THAT for false modesty!? ]