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From: louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
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Subject: Re: NeXt Performance/Price
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Date: 10 Apr 89 13:35:34 GMT
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In article <16964@cup.portal.com> BruceH@cup.portal.com (Bruce Robert Henderson) writes:
>NO WAY!  because the mac IS NOT A WORKSTATION!!! Remember that.... The NeXT may
>not want to be a workstation.  It may want to be more of a PC...

If this is the case, then you can take mine, and all of the other NeXT machines
on our campus back and refund our money.  We don't need any more toy computers
on this campus.  NeXT is trying to compete against the DEC and SUNs of the
world too..

And at least I can get source code for our DEC and SUN workstations. (Obigatory
source code dead-horse beating).

Louis A. Mamakos  WA3YMH    Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU
University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming