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In article <438di2$qmg@starfruit.csd.sgi.com>, kcbrown@starfruit.csd.sgi.com (Kevin Brown) writes:

>>>By the time PC-class
>>>hardware was beefy enough to run NeXTStep, it was too late: Microsoft
>>>had captured most of the market with Windows and managed to get it
>>>past the point where compatibility is everything.  
>>
>>Microsoft had done this by the time NeXTSTEP was introduced.  Remember, 
>>this was in the late '80s.
> 
> I thought Windows gained most of its popularity in the very late 80s
> and/or early 90s, but my timetable could be messed up...
> 
>>>Oh, did I mention that NeXTStep's still too expensive?
>>
>>Again, an astonishingly odd statement from a guy at SGI...
> 
> For the *PC* market...

	Here you're definitely right, as my personal experience attests. I'm a
CS major in my sophomore year of college. I *hate* Microsoft and am currently 
running OS/2 and Linux on my machine; both are nice but neither as nice as 
NeXTStep, which our CS department runs on a few NeXTStations. My machine 
*could* run NeXTStep; it's a DX4/100 with 24 MB of RAM. But after investing the
dough required to get said machine to that level, I am not pleased by the 
prospect of paying several hundred dollars more for the OS academic bundle, 
then several hundred bucks *more* on top of that for enough native apps to 
justify having it. NeXTStep is definitely still too expensive, and its app base
is too small. A pity- it's a damn fine OS, possibly the best I've ever seen.

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