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Article #21822Re: WOULD *YOU* BUY A NeXT COMPUTER? (Read even if you wouldn't)
From: bill beebe
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1989 18:51
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1989 18:51
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In article <10265@alice.UUCP> andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) writes: > >the software on the next, as well as the general user interface, >makes everything i've seen on a 386 (or any other overrated intel >processor) about as attractive as post-tertiary syphyllis. > I find the NeXT software tools the best part of the machine. The hardware lookls little better than a Mac-wanna-be. If someone could find a decent way to port the NeXT software tools so that they would be reasonably small in code size, fast, and affordable, then maybe we could junk Windows and OS/2/PM for the Interface For The Rest of Us. But I doubt it will happen.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!rex!ames!pacbell!hoptoad!peora!tarpit!bilver!wbeebe From: wbeebe@bilver.UUCP (bill beebe) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: WOULD *YOU* BUY A NeXT COMPUTER? (Read even if you wouldn't) Message-ID: <417@bilver.UUCP> Date: 23 Dec 89 18:51:45 GMT References: <317@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> <1TqpCt#6PkSJw=eric@snark.uu.net> <10265@alice.UUCP> Reply-To: wbeebe@bilver.UUCP (bill beebe) Organization: W. J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL Lines: 13