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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: A bit of perspective, please.
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Date: 27 Sep 89 15:25:36 GMT
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In article <36@centec.UUCP> egranthm@centec.UUCP (Ewan Grantham) writes:
>> [partial quote of my article]
>Seriously, are things REALLY this bad?

No, and *I* never said they were *bad* at all.  I said they weren't what
Jobs said they would be, which was *well-nigh perfect*.

Let me set the record straight, publicly and unequivocally:

1. I LIKE MY CUBE.
2. Some of the applications have some bugs, but nothing disastrous.  I've been
   using a cube as my main squeeze since December, and have been
   on the whole very satisfied, starting with 0.8.
3. My 1.0 cube has paniced EXACTLY ONCE.  Mach/UNIX have been very good
   all the way back to 0.8.
4. Buy them.  Buy LOTS of them.  Buy so many of them that NeXT makes
   a ton of money, and can go on offering more bang/buck than anyone
   else in the industry.
   
I have absolutely no connection with NeXT other than as a customer. I
am not part of the UIUC Workstation Support Group, which provides
support for them. I do not get one thin dime of any money, prestige, or
fame from the sale of any cube anywhere.  Put THAT in your Kama Sutra
looseleaf...

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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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