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From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 12 Nov 90 00:14:52 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.
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In article <gbDOVgS00UhW41Onl=@andrew.cmu.edu> 
           ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes:
> Furthermore, there is no System 7.0.  This has to be the most mismanaged
> project in recent history.  It was supposed to be introduced 1.5 years
> ago and won't be out for another year.  I don't like investing my money
> in a company that only makes promises and doesn't deliver.  Let's at
> least try to stick to reality.

Seems to me that NeXT missed a few of it's deadlines too.  At least I 
*thought* I saw Jobs in some program several years ago where he claimed 
that NeXT was right around the corner, and that was awhile before NeXT 1.0 
came out.  And when 1.0 came out, it wasn't quite the machine he had 
originally claimed to be making.

It's nice in many ways, of course, but if you're concerned about sticking 
with reality then you should have a less selective memory about which 
companies have made what promises.

Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY.  USA