Re: Mac II (really SE: A letdown?)

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From: jh
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1987 09:37

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In article <5083@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> zrm@eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks) writes:
>The Macintosh II will be fierce competeition for everyone except Sun
>(because Sun customers want Sun's Unix, not some "with Berkeley
>enhancements" bogosity).

This is exactly the point.  I was disappointed that Apple chose to
ignore the computer science research community, majority of which
wants real 4.xbsd.

>But hey, NeXT Inc. could turn the world upside down next week.

I surely hope that Next Inc. does it right (for example 4.3bsd on top
of Mach and X on top of NeWS) so that Sun customers could have two to
choose from.
-- 
	Juha Heinanen
	Tampere Univ. of Technology
	Finland

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Subject: Re: Mac II (really SE: A letdown?)
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Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 04:37:54 EST
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