Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!mts.rpi.edu!Garance_Drosehn From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!! Message-ID: Date: 13 Nov 90 23:20:40 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Lines: 39 References:<1990Nov10.015237.3468@athena.mit.edu> <108629@convex.convex.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: gilead.its.rpi.edu To pick a nit, and a small point at that: In article declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ) writes: > In article <108629@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes: > > In article <1990Nov12.002503.20363@agate.berkeley.edu> knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) writes: > > >Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu writes: ^^^ = me > > >What's your point? The NeXT is not intended for people with only $2000 to > > >spend. Neither is the Cray, a VAX, an RS/6000, or a Mac IIcx. I guess a > > >computer company without some sort of machine for under $2000 should get out > > >of the business altogether? > > > > Yes, that's exactly the point. High-end machines are exciting and sexy, > > but unless you also have low-end machines to attract enough users to > > attract enough software developers to bring down software prices to attract > > even more users and developers to sell more machines, you aren't going to > > survive. Apple learned that lesson -- almost too late. > > And now look what happened: developers must make sure their ...(actual point of the article deleted)... Despite my name showing up there, nothing that is quoted was written by me... If you're going to delete lines (which is something that's good to do!), make sure you delete the right markers too! Hey, I said it was a small nit-picking point. :-) Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY. USA