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- From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Business Week article (NeXT to dump hardware)
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 02:07:47 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <C1I5xq.BGB@utstat.toronto.edu> philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Rob Tibshirani) writes:
- In article <1k4udc$1cb@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu writes:
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- [ ]
- >
- >But then, at least in the NS486 market, it should be pretty easy for
- >>a small clone maker to preload NS486 to their clone with tested
- >>video cards, ethernet cards and hard disks. And guarantee that things
- >>work. Loading NS486 to existing clones would be problematic, but
- >>no one on the selling side is interested in that -- loads of troubles
- >>and little money to be made.
- >
- >Why on earth will users flock to NS486 when they have yet to leave DOS? There
- >are so many OS's on the PC that it's getting confusing at this point. In any
- >case, NS486 is hardly going to make a dent in sales and users of DOS, Windows,
- >OS/2.
-
- You are missing the point. Of course sales of PC clones with NS486 will
- not make any dent in the total PC sales.
-
- But even a 0.01 % of PC's sold to run NS486 will eat NeXT's hardware sales,
- because NeXT is selling that many in the first place. The point is how
- many users who would have bought NeXT hardware will instead buy 486 + NS486.
- That number can only be 10,000 to seriously hurt NeXT.
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- Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
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