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From: hannum@mahler.psu.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next rumours from MacWeek
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Date: 6 Jul 90 13:12:20 GMT
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In-Reply-To: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu's message of 28 Jun 90 20:37:34 GMT


In article <1990Jun28.184153.27766@midway.uchicago.edu> gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:

   A couple of Next rumours from MacWeek's "Mac the Knife" page:

   1) 5 important Next people have left the company, according to MtK at least
   partly due to Job's management style. MtK sez that sales are slow and burnout
   factor is hight.  Question: does anyone know who any of these people were,
   specifically their job positions?  That is, have any (more) major people left?
   (head of marketing left some time ago)

   2) The color board may not be available by Fall, and Next is concentrating on a
   50 MhZ 68040 machine which will be in a Sun-like pizza box.  It will have no
   OD, but a 2.8 MB floppy instead.  Code name is "Warp 9".


It doesn't surprise me that they would print garbage like that in MacWeek.

 1) The magazine is trash.

 2) The computer is trash.  (Well, it's not very stylish anyway.  "Trash"
    might be a little too strong [but not much].)

 3) Apple and NeXT aren't exactly on good terms, and the users seem to be
    getting involved in this too.  I know many Mac users that absolutely
    despise the NeXT.

 4) I hate rumors.  If you have real, verifiable facts, I'm definitely
    interested, but I do NOT want to hear rumors.
--
 
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