Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tron!shipley
From: shipley@tron.UUCP (Bill Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Why it is not power without price anymore?
Message-ID: <658@tron.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 90 14:11:28 GMT
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Reply-To: shipley@tron.bwi.wec.com.UMD.EDU (Bill Shipley)
Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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According to a recent news article, NeXT sold about 7,000 machines in their
first year. This does not appear to be enough to support large scale
application development. I agree that the NeXT looks like a very nice
machine and the price is becoming very attractive, but at the rate they are
selling I would expect new software to appear much more slowly than it did
for the ST. I realize that several very nice software packages are now
available or will be RSN. If these are sufficient, or you spend most of your
time programming for yourself, the NeXT could be a good choice.

Bill Shipley