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Frank Cobia writes:
> Am I missing something or do you just hate NeXT hardware?

Actually, speaking as someone who felt that NeXT should decide whether to be a
hardware or a software company, I wish that NeXT had decided to go the
hardware route.  NeXT hardware was nice, if rather conservative, back in 1988.
Unfortunately, they got all gung-ho on their one-of-a-kind proprietary
software and ignored the necessary to evolve the hardware.

Neither the slab nor the color offerings were terribly exciting; the best
thing about that was the bargain basement 8/105 machine (which you could make
into a real computer quite cheaply with third-party add-ons).

Of course, I speak from the point of view of someone whose commercial software
purchases for the NeXT have been: co-Xist, SLIP, SoftPC, and Executor -- all
packages aimed at getting the NeXT to play ball with the other machines in the
Panda computer zoo.  People who actually care about NeXTSTEP may feel
differently.