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In article <1995Sep16.151720@apollo> nweininger@macalstr.edu writes:
> 	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.

That is $299 for the full academic bundle for NeXTSTEP, plus $89 for the  
Lighthouse academic pack (which has all of their apps on it).  It doesn't  
seem too much to pay, to me.

Paul
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