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- From: vin@netcom.com (Vin Locke)
- Subject: Re: NS'486 - Verrrry interesting ...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.164639.7107@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <SCOTT.92Dec17064956@nic.gac.edu>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 16:46:39 GMT
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- In article <SCOTT.92Dec17064956@nic.gac.edu> scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes:
- >Anyhow, on the left, second shelf, midway across, there's a package
- >called "NeXTSTEP". "NeXT" is in white, "STEP" is in orange. It's
- >an end view of the box. There's a PC-type color monitor at the
- >bottom with windows and stuff in it. [. . . ]
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-
- I think you may have encountered the publishing/packaging business's
- equivalent of rapid prototyping. "Strategic partners" are always trying to
- hitchhike in each other's ads, and there is alwaylobbying going on to
- "get our product in there." There's phone calls, conference cal, meetings,
- lunches, etc involved with making these things happen.
- I would guess that they had throw something together to make the Intel
- ad deadline.
- --
- --vin
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- vin@netcom.com
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- "Every reform movement has its lunatic fringe"
- --Teddy Roosevelt
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