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From: bruceh@zygot.UUCP (Bruce Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT rumors
Summary: NeXT future upgrades
Message-ID: <2922@zygot.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 89 16:38:18 GMT
References: <246300051@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Green Hills and Cows
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In article <246300051@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> has anyone received a working non-beta system sotware package yet to have to
> pay to upgrade?
You can be certian tha NeXT will not charge you for the 1.0 release.
After that who knows.   I doubt that they will be too absurd.  The
whole apple upgrade bs started AFTER Jobs left.... 
He's very up on having EVERYBODY upgrade.....
That way you don't have to worry about software supporting obsolete
platforms.


> Will NeXT handle it gracefully, or are they planning on doing the old Apple
> BS of a new machine every 6 months to a year and telling us our old machines
Actually, the plan is every 18 months the system will evolve.  If that
is true then the next evolution is due in April, just about the time
that industry insider types say the color system will be announced...



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