On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:54:00PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> NeXT shipped *A LOT* of machines, man. Now, granted, nearly none of
> them went into households, but they installed (by practically giving
> them away) huge numbers of them in american colleges, and a large
> nameless US Gov't agency bought a VERY LARGE number of them.
I owned a couple at one time that had large "Sanitized" stickers on
them. 8-)
> I'm definitely not trying to be a NeXT-tribesman here...but NeXT's
> products, and their relative success & failure, are some of the most
> misunderstood things in the workstation industry.
Great hardware, Great OS, Bad Pricing & Marketing.
(wait a minute, it sounds almost like i'm describing commodore.. No,
I'm not bitter about the Amiga.. Not at all!)
Bill (I still want a NeXTDimension system. dammit.)
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Bill Bradford
mrbill_at_mrbill.net
Austin, TX
Received on Sat Jul 28 2001 - 21:44:15 BST