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From: george@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT - Not worth the effort (yet)?
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Date: 5 Feb 89 19:42:28 GMT
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Reply-To: george@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (George Boyce)
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In article <11076@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> jayrajan@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Vijay Rajan) writes:
>
> 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.

Well, I know there will be plenty of responses to this message. Myself, I
am going to assume that you probably just didn't get talk to the "right"
person. And maybe there isn't a "right" person at U of M... It takes a lot
of staff time to evaluate a new system, let alone show it off to the world
and say nice things about it, let alone develop applications for it. Some
universities might just not have the resources to do all of that.

To provide a contrast, we opened our NeXT workstation lab (25 clients,
5 servers) on 1/23. I.e. open to the entire campus. No back rooms here...

George Boyce, Workstation Resources, Cornell Information Technologies