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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: NeXT announcement (was Re: Atari Workstation)
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Date: 24 Oct 88 09:01:27 GMT
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Anyone who thinks Atari can produce a UNIX workstation even remotely
equivalent to the NeXT machine does not have a very good appreciation 
for either Atari or NeXT. Maybe you have to live up here to understand,
maybe you just have to talk to NeXT on the phone and then Atari, the 
difference is comparable to the difference between a cave painting of 
of a fisherman and a japanese whaling vessel. About all you can say is
that they both end up with fish in their boat. 

The rumors of the '030 box are amusing, but unless they bought out
SCO or something they will have a darn difficult time supporting it.
Contemplating NeXT and Atari competing is downright humorous. But to
be completely serious, Steve Jobs has no intention of selling his machines
to university *students* which is what Atari would like to do, rather he
sells them to the faculty. 

--Chuck McManis
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These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.