NeXT cubes or slabs.

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Fri Jun 26 14:09:13 1998

> Sounds cool. Many of the greatest design concepts are stopped... not
> because of bugs, not because of tiredness of developers, but because of the
> only thing obstructing innovation: Money.

Actually, the 88000 was killed off because Sun went with the SPARCs for
their next generation of machines, the Sun-4 series. SGI was not much of a
player at the time, and NeXT never really got a good foothold in the
workstation market. Data Generals AViiON machines, at least the first
series, were the only 88000 based boxes to hit the market, and they failed
horribly.

Folks, I do not want to bad mouth a fine series of machines from NeXT, but
lets face it - they really never had a chance. It took a company the size
of IBM to muscle into the workstation market in the late 1980s/early
1990s. NeXT just could not do it.

Some mistakes from the NeXT engineers did not help (but we have covered
those before).

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Fri Jun 26 1998 - 14:09:13 BST