Re: Why is NeXT ignored?

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From: Jonathan Hendry
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:52

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mcn@cwru.edu (Michael C. Neuman) writes:
: In article <2B66F49C.8437@news.service.uci.edu> eapu168@orion.oac.uci.edu (Lee  
: Furnival) writes:
: >Now I must admit that I do not read UNIXWorld regularly, but the few times
: >that I have read it I have never seen NeXT mentioned for any reason.  What
: >the hell?  Also, I have yet to hear any UNIX freaks mention NeXT in a
: >serious discussion, yet they live to talk about SUN and others...
: 

<tantrum regarding NeXT's deleted>

Ahem. SunWorld rated the NeXTStation Turbo Color higher than a similarly 
configured Sun.

Either Unix World or Unix Review (don't recall which) recently reviewed
NeXTSTEP3.0 and Solaris in the same issue. They raved about NeXTSTEP, and
yawned about Solaris.

As for the amount of software available for the NeXT (esp. games):

Perhaps it's because NeXT programmers have lives? Unlike Amiga/Sun dorks.
(I'm not surprised you mentioned the Amiga. Question: If the Amiga's such
a good computer, how come HP never talked to CBM about AmigaOS?)

I can see a big, nasty thread coming. Lets move this on over to c.s.n.adv.


--

Jonathan W. Hendry
Drexel University College Of Information Studies
Anderson Financial Systems jon@afs.com

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