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From: mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NEXTs to be sold at Computerland?
Message-ID: <12180@reed.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 89 22:10:31 GMT
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Reply-To: mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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I'm beginning to wonder more and more about NeXT.

On the positive side, they are marvels of marketing manipulation, have
done an excellent job of getting every university with more than 10
students to feel special because they are one of NeXT's favorite
customers.  That is an important complement to what seems to be a very
nice personal computer.

On the other hand they seem to have had some difficulty actually
getting machines out the door (I certainly can't seem to arrange to
purchase one), and the rest of the industry (specifically Microsoft and
Apple) is really rapidly adopting much of what makes NeXT interesting.
I might be able to get what is interesting about the NeXT box without
having to deal with NeXT.

I initially wanted to purchase a NeXT box for scientific-educational
and neat commercial software development - I'm now less certain NeXT is
the right way to go.  Maybe I'll stick with a Macintosh to let people
other than myself use the software.

Mike

p.s. Note that these opinions are strictly my own, and I in no way
represent any person or organization other than myself.  I am simply
an interested physics senior.
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Mike Rutenberg      Reed College, Portland Oregon     (503)239-4434 (home)
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NB: Facts in this note are (of course) universal-- the opinions are just mine