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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: AMIGA
Message-ID: <1991May8.180016.887@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <5fDh02JY072Q01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1991May06.180159.15298@ariel.unm.edu> <z+1G$hs&1@cs.psu.edu>
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Date: Wed, 8 May 1991 18:00:16 GMT

In article <z+1G$hs&1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
> WRONG.  Someone said that he heard the NeXT executables were quite
> large, so I showed him how big Improv was.  I wanted to know if they
> were too large for him.

They were.

> The NeXT is the NeXT standard.  Be prepared.

The NeXT standard what?

You set standards in this business by shipping more units. In the NeXT market
segment, near as I can tell, the big shippers are Microsoft Windows and Mac,
then System V R 4 and the Amiga. The NeXT isn't even in the running.

> How is this contributing to the debate?  It's just a bunch crap, and
> has nothing to do with the merits of the two computers.

More like 6 or 8 contenders.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
