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From: steve@pnet51.cts.com (Steve Yelvington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXt Performance/Price
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Date: 15 Apr 89 00:05:04 GMT
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BruceH@cup.portal.com (Bruce Robert Henderson) writes:
>Let's get one thing straight.  The concept behind a macintosh and your common workstation
>are completely diffrent.  The bottom line is ease of use.  Unix is for computer geeks
>only.  [I am one!] The mac was a godsend for the people because it made software intuitive.
 
Unix is for computer geeks only? Enter the '90s, Bruce. I work for a
metropolitan newspaper that uses Unix-based Sun workstations, and the people
who run them -- scheduling advertising and paginating the classified section
-- are most definitely not computer geeks. Before long we'll replace the aging
Atex news layout terminals on our news desk with Sun workstations. Of the
dozen or so editors who will use them, I'm the only one who understands
c=getchar(). A paper down in Texas has is buying a couple of hundred
workstations and putting them on reporters' desks. Even before NeXT and the
SPARCstation and Open Look, Unix workstations were showing up in stock
brokerages.

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