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From: fargo@pawl.rpi.edu (Ethan M. Young)
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Subject: Re: NeXT impressions
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Date: 20 Feb 89 17:46:04 GMT
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(Although, to my knowledge, there are no NeXTs here at RPI to play with...)

UNIX is the number one problem of NeXT?

Mild flame: Are you an MS-DOS freak or something?
Mild chill

Although UNIX is big, and although not everyone will make use of many of the
features of UNIX, not everyone will be purchasing a NeXT.  The NeXT, if you
recall, was designed as a high-end technical/research workstation.  Thus, the
main body of NeXT users will be college students, professors, graduate stu-
dents, research oriented businesses, etc.  And not just general research, more
in the area of programming and electrical research.  And what better OS for
a programmer to work in than UNIX?

Plus, even though the little tricks of UNIX may be known primarily by the
guru's and wizards, there happen to be alot of 'em around.  (comp.unix.wizards)

Plus, there are TONS of programs and utilities available for UNIX.  If you
can't find something you need in the standard library of functions, you can
almost always find it on another machine.  Not only can you find all these
functions, but most of them come with the source code.  Something which is in-
valuable to any programmer.  (Especially those of us who do alot of porting)

Overall, I think that UNIX was a very good choice for the NeXT.

I just wish IBM thought the same way.  (Dreaming......)

Thank you and happy hunting!   Internet: fargo@pawl.rpi.edu
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