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- From: tjhendry@queen.mcs.drexel.edu (Jonathan Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Why is NeXT ignored?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.165219.16402@netnews.noc.drexel.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:52:19 GMT
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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.
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- Jonathan W. Hendry
- Drexel University College Of Information Studies
- Anderson Financial Systems jon@afs.com
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