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From: kelvin@cs.utexas.edu (Kelvin Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: comparing NeXT vs Mac on slow sales rampup
Message-ID: <170@qt.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 90 02:57:55 GMT
References: <1919@esquire.UUCP> <16451@nigel.udel.EDU> <29830@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <29830@amdcad.AMD.COM>, ching@pepsi.amd.com (Mike Ching) writes:
] In article <16451@nigel.udel.EDU> evenson@ee.udel.edu (Mark Evenson) writes:
] >
] >	According to the latest UNIX world, in the "News Brief" section, NeXT
] >has been moving only "hundreds of boxes" a month, and calls this "slow".
] 
] When the Mac was introduced, Apple built a factory capable of producing a
] machine every 17 seconds (this is from memory, it was some time under a
] minute). It may have taken a while for it to be run at full capacity but
] probably never was as low as hundreds/month. Slow is a fair description
] of NeXT production.

Does the Lisa count at "when the Mac was introduced"?  I'd be curious to
hear what the ramp-up of the Lisa was like compared to the cube.  I know
both were pretty anemic compared to aspirations.  Maybe steve will get
lucky with his second cube like his did with his second Lisa (a.k.a. Mac).

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