Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!agate!saab.stanford.edu!neon!neon!gumby From: gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Byte fails to keep up. Message-ID: Date: 27 Sep 90 17:48:46 GMT References: <1990Sep26.011125.11753@cs.umn.edu> <2408@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <2489@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> Sender: news@Neon.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Cygnus Support Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: cabbagehead@saturn.ucc.umass.edu's message of 27 Sep 90 16:02:30 GMT Date: 27 Sep 90 16:02:30 GMT From: cabbagehead@saturn.ucc.umass.edu (Chris Lloyd) maybe the press just can't believe how awesome and inexpensive these new next machines are.. :) I don't want to sound paranoid but I suspect some folks don't WANT to know how a&i the machines are. Case in point: The morning after the announcement when I went to look at the paper I ran into a friend who said he'd already seen the writeup. "What did it say?" "Oh," he said, "about what you'd expect: slow, overpriced; nothing new." Dissapointed I opened the paper to discover that there were no technical specs in the news report at all! When I confronted my friend he said "well, uh, you know, it's a 68K-based machine; can't possibly be fast, not a risc, etc..." I think he's not alone. As for marketing: One thing I like about NeXT is their attitude towards the competition. It really turns me off to see Sun's president whining that they lost some deal for political reasons -- that their "enemies" couldn't stand to see sun "lead yet another techincal coup." While NeXT just pushes better and better machines out the door. On the other hand, they do need better evangelism!