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From: bruce@atncpc.UUCP (Bruce Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: An unfulfilled promise...
Summary: Just you wait.....
Keywords: shipments problems
Message-ID: <322@atncpc.UUCP>
Date: 20 Aug 90 17:15:17 GMT
References: <1990Aug19.191912.24613@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Ashton Tate NCPC, San Jose, CA.
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I would expect NeXT and all of it's 3rd party loonies
to address all of the major issues rather soon (maybe
the next 2 months if we are lucky....)

The areas they will attack would be:

1)	Performance
2)	Color
3)	Price
4)	Application Software

Besides, take heart everyone! It's not like we NeXT die
hards haven't had 20 Metric Tonnes of gloom and doom
already!  What's annother bash or two?  It rebuttal to 
this cheezy article,  There have been several major sales
recently, including William Morris Agency in Hollywood, 
where the machine has a strong cult following.  Several 
other "big sites" are looking to buy a bunch, but are waiting
for the above 4 items.  We know because we are beta testing
in some of them.

By the way,  I'd put the number sold to be "over 15,000" 
personally.  This is because my machine is serial number
2454, and was purchased 1yr and 5 months ago.  The ones
we just recently obtained have serial numbers like 16233.

You figure it out.


Bruce Henderson
User Interface KGB
Ashton Tate NeXTeam