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From: brooke@ingr.UUCP (Brooke King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: My ramblings on the NeXT machine
Message-ID: <2976@ingr.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 88 22:33:52 GMT
References: <26812@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: brooke@ingr.UUCP (Brooke King)
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Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL -- but opinions are all mine!
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In article <26812@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> munson@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Ethan V. Munson) writes:
|We had a seminar here at Berkeley on the NeXT machine.  I had a few thoughts
|about the machine and the company.  I should mention that I am a long time
|Macintosh owner and have fond feelings for that machine and its manufacturer.
|If I sound somewhat sour about NeXT, some portion of that is just jealousy
|and regret that I may no longer be on the cutting edge of personal computing
|(Yeah, Yeah, ... I probably never was, but I felt like it).

I agree with most of what Mr. Munson writes, but there needs to
be a correction:

|Good Things
|===========
|
|1) It's the first multimedia computer.  The Mac brought window/mouse user
|	interfaces to retail computing.  If NeXT can find a way to sell
|	outside of the university, it will do the same for multimedia.

The Amiga is the first multimedia computer.  I do not own one,
but I have used one, and it is a powerful, non-toy machine.  I'd
probably rather have a NeXT, but accuracy is what this followup
is about.

|Ethan Munson
|munson@renoir.Berkeley.EDU
|...ucbvax!renoir!munson
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