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From: jayrajan@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Vijay Rajan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: NeXT - Not worth the effort (yet)?
Message-ID: <11076@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Date: 4 Feb 89 03:49:44 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
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 I am visiting the US from Australia for a short time and I was very
eager to see the NeXT machine before I return as I gather it may
be some time before NeXT ship to overseas unis, especially Australia.
 
 I went to the microcomputer centre here at the U of M and asked to see
their new NeXT which was hidden away in a back room. The guy in charge
refused to let me see it run, he showed me the computer but told me it
took ages (5-6 min) to boot and crashed at every given opportunity, only
the compilers were a bit more stable and they looked liked compiling on
any unix machine.

 Needless to say I was VERY pissed off at the .... person. He seemed to
think that the computer was not even worth turning on to show as the demo
programs and apps were just soooo unstable.

 Oh well, since I'm returning to Oz next week it seems unlikely that I'll
get to play with it, for a couple of years at least!

 From reading the messages I understood that the software was still under
development, OK, but not even worth turning on?!?!

 Malcolm Pradhan
(Hate this Minnesotan winter)