Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!ucsd!pacbell.com!ames!haven!decuac!pa.dec.com!granite.pa.dec.com!mwm From: mwm@fenris.relay.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY! Message-ID: Date: 7 Dec 90 05:45:41 GMT References: <25701@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <21941@well.sf.ca.us> <14702@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <21991@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: yoo@well.sf.ca.us's message of 6 Dec 90 08:03:16 GMT In article <21991@well.sf.ca.us> yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo) writes: Steve Jobs claims 2500 040 NeXTs will have shipped by the end of December. Hmm. 2500 machines a month, along with back orders of 15,000 as of announcment time. That translates to 6 months before the orders placed _before the public announcement_ are filled. Even ignoring orders placed since announcement, that's a bit of a wait to get a machine. I expect to own an '040 based Amiga in less than 6 months. Depends on how deep the various discounts on the '040 cards are. Not only will I then have a faster machine than the NeXT, it'll have better graphics for the things I do, and I won't have to put up with software based on Unix (though by then I expect to be running OSF's multi-threaded Mach kernel at work).