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From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: NeXT not revolutionary enough?
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Date: 9 Nov 88 22:22:37 GMT
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Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle)
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In article <4069@encore.UUCP> bzs@encore.com (Barry Shein) writes:

|The problem with both of the above comments is that they are making
|the "best" the enemy of the "good".

On the other hand, one needs to be careful and not mistake some handy
piece of garbage for "good" and make it the enemy of the truely good.
There is altogether too much of that happening.  The trick is to determine
what one can accomplish, avoiding both the over-optimistic blue-sky ideas
and the under-optimistic stuck-in-the-mud ones.

I suspect that there are a lot of Jobs worshippers out there, who were
expecting something more than what he is delivering.  NeXT *is* a nice
step forwards.  It is not perfect.  There are things I would have done
differently.  If nothing else, "NeXT" is painful to type, and is ugly
to boot. :-)
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