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From: tli@sargas.usc.edu (Tony Li)
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Subject: Re: NeXT not revolutionary enough?
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Date: 29 Oct 88 20:02:52 GMT
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In article <471@wucs1.wustl.edu> conrad@wucs1.wustl.edu (H. Conrad Cunningham) writes:
    
    	He maintained that the NeXT computer will be a failure because
    it not revolutionary enough.  Its only advantage is a short-term
    hardware capability/pricing advantage over the other available
    UNIX-based workstations.  He sees the NeXT as trying to impose a
    visual, object-oriented overlay ("a Smalltalk-like environment") onto a
    text-oriented UNIX base.  These he contended are incompatible
    notions--they mix like "oil and water."  The UNIX base insures that
    the visual and sound-oriented capabilities can't be used in any truly
    revolutionary way.

I recall that Sun Microsystems failed for exactly these same reasons. 

;-)

Tony Li - USC University Computing Services - Dain Bramaged.
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