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From: dan@maccs.McMaster.CA (Dan Trottier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: press clippings Re: The NeXT machine
Message-ID: <1517@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Date: 22 Oct 88 16:47:14 GMT
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Reply-To: dan@maccs.UUCP (Dan Trottier)
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In article <757@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> dnelson@umbio.MIAMI.EDU (Dru Nelson) writes:
>
>Look at what Mr. Joy said... Oh it isn't too different from whats out
>right now.  Bullcra*!  Price is an important feature too!  He better
>recognize the great features of the NeXT or start losing sales.

Actually Bill Joy refered to the near future. I wouldn't be surprised if
it turns out that Sun has something to compete with or surpass the NeXT
workstation. I think we are seeing the beginnings of a great buyers market.

I personally would have been more impressed if Jobs' used the 88000 instead
of the 68030.

For those who claim that a floppy drive on the NeXT machine is not necessary
you are wrong. The optical disk in your only drive has the whole operating
system on it. You won't want to remove it all that often. It also doesn't
make for an efficient medium for software distribution. Consider most software
packages sold consume about 1 MB of space you will have tons of excess 
capacity on the medium. Plus it will add $50 dollars to the price of buying
software.


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