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- >>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua W Burton <jburton@nwu.edu> writes:
- In article <4pr6pe$sp1@news.acns.nwu.edu> jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) writes:
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- >> I think Bob made a really good documentary. Although I'd have
- >> appreciated free advertising, I don't blame him for not showing
- >> more of us on the show.
- >>
- >> --Cliff
-
- Joshua> I just got done watching the tape I made of it, and
- Joshua> couldn't help noticing how weird it was that Steve Jobs
- Joshua> had at least as much air time as anyone else, an
- Joshua> out-of-focus black icon on screen for something like 12
- Joshua> full minutes, and a detailed description of how he came to
- Joshua> be eased out of Apple...yet the word NeXT was not
- Joshua> mentioned even once. Now, admittedly, a company that
- Joshua> spent a quarter of a billion dollars before it sold its
- Joshua> 100,000th machine is at best a footnote to the history of
- Joshua> computing (even if they are profitable now), but Steve did
- Joshua> find time to mention object orientation, and even Pixar
- Joshua> got a quick plug at the end.
-
- I don't remember the Pixar plug, but I think Bob tried real hard not
- to open many loose ends, which is why we didn't get more air-time, nor
- was Phoenix Technologies mentioned or NeXT.
-
- Joshua> I guess that's NeXT all over---an icon in the background,
- Joshua> always in peripheral view but somehow never coming into
- Joshua> focus.
-
- Don't get me started about NeXT. ARDI had two full page ads (at $7k a
- piece) in the pipe for NeXTWORLD when NeXT pulled the plug on
- hardware. We got kicked hard in the teeth by that.
-
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-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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