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- From: rsrodger@next10csc.wam.umd.edu (Robert Stephen Rodgers)
- Subject: Re: New SPARC Classic
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:36:43 GMT
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- In article <1dtuk5INNot8@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)
- writes:
- > 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.
-
-
- Like always, things in this message are IMHO.
-
- Btw: Anyone know if HP is still getting creamed? Even with
- their price cuts (hell, surgery) on their PC systems, their
- only real successful division these last two years seems to
- have been printers... Anyone?
-
- <And boy is the HP LJ 4 sweet.>
-
- Next has a user interface for people who don't want to pick
- and poke and hack and spooze over autoexec.bat's and system
- errors. Hell, I've only managed to bring down the NeXT that I
- use (without trying) once or twice (but it was _down_, as in,
- not responsing to the power-up/down key.. What idiot threw out
- the idea of a hardware reset....)...
-
- Good for them, but it's not going to win them the workstation
- market, which is an eat-'em up and spit-'em out kind of market.
-
-
-
-
-
- > 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.
-
-
- Hardware is a commodity to a point. This is true. But
- NeXT (and users) has a much easier time is the base hardware
- is in some way standard. I think that with NT and multiplatform
- OS/2, you're going to start seeing the underlying hardware
- become unimportant _for awhile_ but them pretty much heterogenize
- as users--now that they're using the same software--want to use
- peripherals as well.
-
- At least it leaves some room for creativity....
-
-
- --
- Robert Stephen Rodgers || rsrodger@wam.umd.edu || IRC: Yamanari
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- Q: What did the academic say to the art major?
- A: "I'll take a big mac and fries."
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