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- From: mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM (Mark Crispin)
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- Subject: Re: Business Week article (NeXT to dump hardware)
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 08:23:16 GMT
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- Frank Cobia writes:
- > Am I missing something or do you just hate NeXT hardware?
-
- Actually, speaking as someone who felt that NeXT should decide whether to be a
- hardware or a software company, I wish that NeXT had decided to go the
- hardware route. NeXT hardware was nice, if rather conservative, back in 1988.
- Unfortunately, they got all gung-ho on their one-of-a-kind proprietary
- software and ignored the necessary to evolve the hardware.
-
- Neither the slab nor the color offerings were terribly exciting; the best
- thing about that was the bargain basement 8/105 machine (which you could make
- into a real computer quite cheaply with third-party add-ons).
-
- Of course, I speak from the point of view of someone whose commercial software
- purchases for the NeXT have been: co-Xist, SLIP, SoftPC, and Executor -- all
- packages aimed at getting the NeXT to play ball with the other machines in the
- Panda computer zoo. People who actually care about NeXTSTEP may feel
- differently.
-