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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT --- not worth the effort (yet)?
Message-ID: <18081@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 4 Feb 89 17:51:58 GMT
References: <21404@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <21404@ames.arc.nasa.gov> watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John S. Watson) writes:
>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.  

      Perhaps each NeXT should come with a copy of "The Frozen Keyboard -
Living with Bad Software" (Tab Books, 1988).

					John Nagle