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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: Next NeXT
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Date: 28 Mar 90 02:37:43 GMT
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In article <8127@tank.uchicago.edu> phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
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>While this is all a wonderful discussion---and I agree with many
>statements (particularly the lack-of-FLOPs argument, and the fact
>that it is hard to sell a machine without a known upgrade path)---it

What I think is really amusing, is the fact that a lot of companies
get bad credit for vapor ware. Now NeXT is strictly quiet about its
future products, and oh wonder, the same happens. Just immagine they
would talk about their products, and then be late by a month...

>is all a waste of time. NeXT does not appear to listen, nor to establish

You can be sure that NeXT listens. They quoted one day exactly what I
posted when I called tech support with the same question...

>any channels to properly and productively outlet such frustrations.

There are. At least for developers, and this includes probably also
the academic developers, there are a few useful mail addresses to make
use of, if you have suggestions. And as NeXT is listening here for
sure, it is not even a waste of time, they will remember what people
want. Just think of the preliminary 1.0 doc. This thing was produced
in response to popular request...

>Heck, I don't even know if there will ever be a software upgrade at
>this point!

Well if there was not, NeXT wouldn't survive that day. I guess the
whole NeXT community would go amok...
>We may as well go to the next point of the agenda---may that be
>talking about things we can do, or selling our own NeXT systems to
>some poor and deserving students (and I really don't want to be forced
>to do this).
>

Well, selling wouldn't be the point. I guess you would have to donate
them...
:)

>/ivo welch	ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu
>Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA

Ronald
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