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- From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: New SPARC Classic
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 15:52:37 GMT
- Organization: Cubic Solutions - NeXT software development and consulting
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- Message-ID: <1dtuk5INNot8@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- References: <1992Nov10.215517.5266@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <1992Nov12.112919.1683@proponent.com>
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- In article <1992Nov12.112919.1683@proponent.com> Monty Solomon <roscom!monty@think.com> writes:
- > SMCC INTRODUCES COLOR RISC WORKSTATION PRICED LESS THAN A PC
- [ details deleted ]
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- My own sense in all this is that a company NeXT's size cannot possibly compete
- in all arenas of workstation production with companies 1 or 2 orders of
- magnitude greater in size (like Sun, IBM, DEC, HP, etc.). NeXT simply must
- concentrate on a subset of what workstation production entails, and excel in
- those areas.
-
- Apparently, Bud Tribble felt that Jobs overemphasized hardware versus software
- development and resigned when this disagreement couldn't be resolved. I am
- leaning more and more toward Tribble's point of view. Hardware is becoming a
- commodity item, whereas software (NeXT's real strength) is where NeXT should be
- concentrating.
-
- So I hope that NeXT is spending its limited resources on porting NeXTSTEP to as
- many hardware architectures as possible rather than on trying to decide what
- CPU to go with for the future, a decision fraught with pitfalls when one
- considers the choices and politics of each choice. But I'm afraid that Jobs
- considers its own hardware to be essential for NeXT, and I can't see how NeXT
- can possibly compete in this very expensive area. One would hope that van
- Cuylenberg (sp?) or Canon or others with influence at NeXT are able to point
- NeXT in a successful direction, but I guess Jobs can be difficult to convince,
- at times.
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