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- From: yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang/Humanities)
- Subject: Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.204914.20442@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 20:49:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec13.052608.17922@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec13.032244.6133@fcom.cc.utah.edu> yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang/Humanities) writes:
- >>As far as why they would port NeXTSTEP to Pentium rather than to sexy
- > ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
- >
- > And that was *exactly* the right thing for them to do.
- > But releasing software for a hardware platform is not necessarily
- > tied to NeXT releasing the hardware platform themselves.
- >
- > Point: There is no way that NeXT can compete in the
- > Intel based PC market. I would be surprised if they
- > could offer prices competitive with the systems IBM
- > and compaq are shipping these days, let alone the
- > Death Clones (tm) coming in from everywhere.
- >
- >--
- > Snout: O Bottom, thou art chang'd! What do I see on thee?
- > Bottom: What do you see? You see an ass-head of your own, do you?
- > ---"I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they----
- > ----aren't even superficial" --Nietzsche ---------------------
-
- I don't think NeXT wants to become a clone manufacturer; they just want to
- sell integrated hardware for their killer environment. Many customers are
- willing to pay a premium price for integrated hardware for a specific
- environment; those customers are generally corporations purchashing
- hundreds of tubes and want the least headache and grief money can buy. On
- the other hand, the horizontal market--home users, small business,
- etc.--wants to minimize cost and is more willing to deal with the
- frustration (joy) of putting together a clone system. Either way, NeXT
- would have it covered by manufacturing Intel-based NeXt hardware.
-
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-
- --
- Yan Fang-Magnusson
- Ph.D. candidate, philosophy, University of Utah
- yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu
- yanfang@cc.utah.edu (NeXTmail)
-