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From: kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth)
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Subject: Re: Request for poll of ten best/worst products of 88
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Date: 2 Jan 89 18:31:32 GMT
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Best products

    Mathematica -- This symbolic algebra package does for algebra homework
    what pocket calculators did for arithmetic homework.  An immesureable
    boon for physicists, it may just possibly be the death nell for any
    future generation of mathematicians.  How will they learn if they can
    just get the answers (to all known problems) out of a computer?

    NeXT -- Whether it is a success or not, the NeXT box has upped the ante
    in the workstation market.  The integration of sound in a serious
    machine is in my opinion its most important feature, but the advanced
    manufacturing technology and improvements in user interface are also
    important.

    Low power high contrast flat displays -- The paper-white LCD, and some
    new EL display technologies are making laptop computers far more
    acceptable.  I hope the laptop will be the big product of 1989, and this
    is the enabling technology.

There should be a vaporware award too.