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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: End of NeXT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.143726.3939@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <72148@cup.portal.com> <1992Dec22.040523.2598@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec24.210903.15719@cuug.ab.ca>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 14:37:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.210903.15719@cuug.ab.ca> wilcoxt@cuug.ab.ca (Terrance Wilcox 229-3361) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec22.040523.2598@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >>
- >> Pardon, but doesn't Canon already own more than 50% of NeXT?
- >
- >No, closer to 20%. Jobs still owns 46%.
- >>
- >>
- >> The day NeXT becomes a wholly Japanese owned company is the
- >> day I start rabidly campaigning for Windows NT. Not that NeXT
- >> has exactly been the users friend ("Hey, let's design our
- >> machines without parallel ports, sell a brainless laser engine
- >> and paper feed in a box and make it impossible for users to
- >> buy much more powerful printers for themselves!!" -- re:
- >> NeXT $1000+ "dumb" printer vs. just about any printer in the
- >> last 4 years), and not to be xenophobic or paranoid or anything,
- >> but we are already in a pretty bad way and don't need our software
- >> industry's jewels going overseas as well.
- >>
- >I've got to ask. Why do I need a parallel port? Why do I need more than a
- >brainless printer? As it is, I've got a fast 400 DPI laser. That's better
- >than most PC users, and they have parallel ports and intelligent printer.
- >All they have to worry about is drivers and cables and incompatibilities and
- >font cartridges...
-
-
- Hewlett Packard LaserJet 4M Postscript Level two < $2500.
-
- 600 dpi, 8 ppm.
-
- No processor time sucking.
-
- Still think the NeXT laser is a good deal? Then consider:
-
- HP LJ4 (not PS) + 4 megs: $1500
- ghostscript (free)
- == postscript 600 dpi for $400 more than the NeXT edu price.
-
- NeXT designed their systems so that adding non-next peripherals
- (who else would be dense enough to make a printer that can only
- hook to a NeXT??) is either impossible, or agonizing. A parallel
- port (which would add, what, 30 cents to the cost of the machine?)
- would have opened the doors to printers that are arriving now.
- By the end of '93, those lowly PC users will be buying fast
- 600 dpi printers for about $1000 to $1200.
-
- >
- >Terry Wilcox
- >
- >PS. I forget emulation and TrueType and all that crap.
- >
-
-
- --
- "If you can't eat sand, why the hell are you living in a desert?"
-
- Equality is a delusion, suffering is a fairy tale and God is a fantasy.
- Blaming society for inequality is like blaming the sky for rain.
-