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In article <1992Apr15.155132.16493@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca> aberno@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) writes:

   I think you have hit on something significant here.

   NeXT will never be the PC of the future. That is obvious.

Never is a long time.  Of course NeXT can become a standard in the
industry.  Their biggest problem is that the hardware required to
effectively run NeXTstep is costly at the moment.

   I would be delighted if they became another Amiga - Amiga just sold their  
   millionth machine, there is a good software base, and they are successful.  

Commodore has sold 3 million Amigas.

   Your disparaging coments about Apple further reveal the attitude - you  
   think that it might be too late for the Mac, but I say that the Mac was a  
   ripping, roaring success, and I would be elated if the NeXT even came  
   close. It might yet. 

Keyword: was.  The PC market will gain even more momentum with OS/2
and the soon to be released Windows NT.  Hundreds of PC developers
will write development tools that provide a comparable environment to
the one found on the NeXT.  Like Windows 3.0, they won't have to be as
good as what they're imitating.  By December of 93, Windows NT will be
running on faster hardware than NeXTstep, and probably on much cheaper
hardware too.

   Your feelings about what "successful" and "not successful" mean are really  
   a long way away from what I think of in relation to NeXT.

A niche market means that a lot of software will never (remember that
is a long time :-)) be written for the NeXT and esoteric software that
is written for it will probably be expensive.

-Mike