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From: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro)
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Subject: Re: NeXt Performance/Price
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Date: 11 Apr 89 00:52:43 GMT
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In article <16964@cup.portal.com> BruceH@cup.portal.com (Bruce Robert Henderson) writes:
>Does anyone out there on the mac see any need for SAS or EMACS???
>NO WAY!

As someone who has owned a mac since day one, is fairly happy with it,
and has done extensive consluting in the Mac domain, I am afraid I
must disagree.  There is a definite need for a decent text editor such
as emacs.  Those of us who are touch typists simply lose too much
speed by having to reach for the mouse all of the time.

Also, the absence of SAS and SPSS/X has forced many of my clients to
go with IBM compatibles, even when they preferred going with the Mac,
simply because they *need* the capability.

The belief that the Mac is simply a PC is naive.

Jon