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- From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
- Subject: Re: New SPARC Classic
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:41:06 GMT
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- isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes:
- > Monty Solomon <roscom!monty@think.com> writes:
- > > SMCC INTRODUCES COLOR RISC WORKSTATION PRICED LESS THAN A PC
- > [ details deleted ]
- >
- > 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.).
-
- and
-
- > 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.
-
- Sun was also many orders of magnitude larger than NeXT when NeXT released
- the NeXTstations. Here it's a year or two later and Sun is just now
- catching the price/performance of the box that NeXT released that long ago.
- I don't think we should assume that NeXT *cannot* compete in hardware, when
- history has shown that they do a pretty reasonable job of competing there.
-
- (though I should stress that I very much agree that it's about time for NeXT
- to think about repricing their hardware, and I also agree that I'd like to
- see NeXTSTEP ready for more hardware platforms)
-
- Followups to csn.advocacy, where this kind of debate belongs.
-
- --
- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
- ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
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