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Re: Triumph of the Nerds



> 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

I just got done watching the tape I made of it, and couldn't help
noticing how weird it was that Steve Jobs had at least as much
air time as anyone else, an out-of-focus black icon on screen for
something like 12 full minutes, and a detailed description of how
he came to be eased out of Apple...yet the word NeXT was not
mentioned even once.  Now, admittedly, a company that spent a
quarter of a billion dollars before it sold its 100,000th machine
is at best a footnote to the history of computing (even if they
are profitable now), but Steve did find time to mention object
orientation, and even Pixar got a quick plug at the end.

I guess that's NeXT all over---an icon in the background, always
in peripheral view but somehow never coming into focus.

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