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From: kent@WSL.DEC.COM
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Subject: Re: NeXT not revolutionary enough?
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Date: 11 Nov 88 22:13:28 GMT
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Nothing that I've seen written about the NeXT machine has said that
it's a "student" machine. It's always been called a "scholar's
workstation". Freshmen in college, anywhere, are not "scholars". 

If I have any gripes with the machine, they would be around the fact
that it's too self-contained. Yah, it's got lots of whizzy stuff and
I'd love to play with one, but I don't want a self-sufficient box any
more. I want a user interface engine that knows how to deal with a lot
of very powerful back ends. I don't want the collected works of
Shakespeare in my office -- I want them down on the literature server,
along with a full concordance, index, and commentaries.

I say a scholar's workstation should give you the power of a library at
your desk. That's what most scholars I know need.

chris