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From: ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Alan Gerber)
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Subject: Re: Commodore at FCC
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Date: 21 Sep 90 13:56:20 GMT
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>In article <22107@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:

>>NeXT was there too.  They had a bevy of cubes sitting around for
>>demos. They also had a new box: the NeXTstation.  I picked up a
>>brochure.

>>The shockers: It sports a 25MHz 68040, yes, an Oh Forty.  And the list
>>price is $4995.

With all this talk about the NeXT, I wonder if anyone read the same article
I did recently (released by UPI I think, I can't recall). In it some
"industry expert" or another estimated NeXT would actually sell only 8,000
machines in a year (either current year or next year, I can't find the 
article). I was wondering if these figures were possibly accurate? 
(I still think I must have read it wrong).
If so,
you have to be impressed with their PR skills. The NeXT has, in my
experience, greater name recognition than the Amiga and has gotten lots of
media exposure.


Richard