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- From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: why NeXT is still having credibility problems
- Date: 15 Sep 1992 06:39:20 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <MS-C.716532025.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
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- In article <MS-C.716532025.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> Mark Crispin
- <mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:
-
- >
- >I though that ordering some additional DSP memory might help some
- >problems I had been having with music. I called up NeXT to order it.
- >
- >I also found out from the fellow at NeXT that DSP memory is `not
- >listed as a product available to ship.' Great. Now they tell me. I
- >ordered vaporware.
-
- It is certainly listed, and I ordered 3 of them recently and got them
- in 3 weeks approximately. Part#, name etc are as follows.
-
- N7013 DSP 96KB Memory Expansion Kit
-
-
- By the way, I don't think MusicKit will start using additional DSP RAM
- automatically. At least 2.1 MusicKit driver/monitor is hard-assembled
- for 8kword stock configuration.
-
-
- >NeXT's order management system (running on a NeXT, perchance?) does
- >not have the capability to look up an user by the customer's name.
- >The person I talked to at NeXT said as much. Now, any vendor in the
- >Mac world would be laughed out of the market if they couldn't look up
- >a customer's order by his name.
-
- Hmmm. I wonder what happened to the "mission-critical application"
- development for their own use. They've had NeXTSTEP for full 3 years
- and still doesn't have a decent order management system?
-
-
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- Izumi Ohzawa [ $BBg_78^=;(J ]
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