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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: What's coming?
Summary: The pot calling the kettle black?
Keywords: appropriate use
Message-ID: <410@wet.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 89 22:42:46 GMT
References: <65100001@tippy> <245300016@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <6528@rpi.edu> <388@wet.UUCP> <2396@zygot.UUCP>
Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <2396@zygot.UUCP> bruceh@zygot.UUCP (Bruce Henderson) writes:
>As far as your grasp of the porpose or the intended market of the
>machine, it's obvious you haven't got a clue.  As far as any knowlege
>about the machine, it's workings or it's methods, you are also
>clue-less [I checked the list of people who have attended developer
>ED.]  So keep your uniformed opinions to yourself!

I'm bound by some non-disclosure agreements that make it
difficult to rebut this--but you've guessed wrong.  Badly.

As for NeXT's marketing strategy, let's just say that I have
mixed feelings.  It doesn't make much difference to me unless
they (euphemism) "market limit" the machine in the future.  I'm
hesitant in my enthusiasm for the machine; some things NeXT
employees have told me some things (management decisions) that I
consider unfortunate, but not enough to damn the machine.  Make
no mistake--I *like* NeXTs.  I like NeXTs more than anything else
in that price range.  But I'm not a blind-faith supporter,
either.  I just tell it like it is.

The fact of the matter is that there are a lot of people on this
list who have no experience with workstations (or for that
matter, NeXTs), whose primary sources of information are hearsay,
rumor, and "free subscriptions" to slick vertical publications
that aren't exactly known for responsible journalism ... or have
a specific agenda which includes painting NeXT in a dim light.

"Why can't X be more like Y?"
"Why don't you stick with Y?"
"I don't like Y."
					-=EPS=-