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Re: Triumph of the Nerds



>>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua W Burton <jburton@nwu.edu> writes:
In article <4pr6pe$sp1@news.acns.nwu.edu> jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) writes:


    >> 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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