Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!watson
From: watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John S. Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT --- not worth the effort (yet)?
Message-ID: <21404@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 4 Feb 89 08:46:08 GMT
Reply-To: watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John S. Watson)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
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[eat me!]

>  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.

Why the heck is it off?  What are they using it for anyway?  
The ultimate high tech paper weight?
When we got our first NeXT, I crash the thing in a few seconds.
But you quickly learn what not to do.  Reminds me of the old joke about 
the patient telling the doctor "it hurts  when I do this (demonstrating)", 
and the doctor says "then don't do that."  
Now I can go all day without crashing it.  

The demos are showy, but not very useful.  
It reminds me of our Suns five years ago.  

Anybody else get a picture of an "ardwolf" when you ask the dictionary 
to look up "zymurgy".

-- 
John S. Watson, Civil Servent from Hell        ARPA: watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov 
NASA Ames Research Center                      UUCP:  ...!ames!watson
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