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From: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT not revolutionary enough?
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Date: 1 Nov 88 18:39:07 GMT
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In article <485@wucs1.wustl.edu> conrad@wucs1.UUCP (H. Conrad Cunningham) writes:
>To some extent Jobs has bet his company on college "hackers."  The
>approach worked by accident with UNIX.  It was somewhat successful by
>intention with the Macintosh.  Maybe it'll work with the NeXT cube, too.

  From what I heard Jobs has people working above the "college hacker" level.
Also college hackers aren't necessarily bad.  I also would give the
Macintosh a little more than "successful by intention".  After all there are
more Mac II's than sun workstations out there {according to MacUser a biased
source I'll grant you}.

  The scuttle but going around the valley is that Jobs looked for and got
some of the best people in the industry to work for him, many people took
significant pay cut's as well, just to be able to work on such a machine.

  Also I'd be willing to bet that Kernighan & Ricthe {sp??} would object to
being called "college hackers".  Lets try and pull out of the "it's from
Jobs, therefore I'm not allowed to like it mode."
-- 
David M. O'Rourke                                  dorourke@polyslo.calpoly.edu

"If it doesn't do Windows, then it's not a computer!!!"
Disclaimer: I don't represent the school.  All opinions are mine!