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From: roston@ragnarok.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Gerry Roston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,alt.next
Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
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Date: 18 Oct 88 16:33:50 GMT
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I'ver finally had it.  Someone (Steve Jobs) FINALLY introduces what appears
to to a superior product to the market, and all I've seen so far on the
net is flames.  There have been some well founded comments, like the 
problem of distributing software on $50 disks (although for some unknown
reason no one has mentioned tape cartridges yet, although most of us 
have them on our Suns).

The one comment, though, which really got my goat, was someone's complaints 
about the price tag.  Well, let me tell you something buster: recently,
I compared the price of a Sun 3/60 to a similarly equipped IBM PC AT with
the same software (or as close as you can get in the MSDOS world).  And
guess what, the Sun was cheaper.  And, is there anyone out there who
wouldn't rather own a NeXT rather than a Sun?  Isn't the NeXT more powerful
and come with more software than a Sun?  By simple logic then, the NeXT IS
cheaper than an IBM PC AT and almost certainly less than the IBM System 2
stuff.  But more importantly, who would REALLY want to own one of those
IBM pieces of garbage anyway?

COME ON FOLKS!!!  Flaming is fun, but based on what I have been reading,
the NeXT computer almost seems the the panacea for my home computer.  As
soon as a color system is announced, I plan to buy one.  Lets see some
more constructive discussion instead of random flames.


gerry roston, robotic systems research group
jet propulsion laboratory, 4800 oak grove drive, m/s 23
pasadena, california, 91109, (818) 354-9124  (818) 354-6508
roston@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov