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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: They Are shipping in volume???
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Date: 14 Jan 91 03:33:50 GMT
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In article <SCOTT.91Jan13115421@mcs-server.gac.edu> scott@mcs-server.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes:


   Please do remember that NeXT is not IBM or Apple.  Those companies can
   ramp up and ship 25,000 machines in a week, if need be.  Well, that's
   probably way conservative :-).  NeXT, meanwhile, can hardly upgrade
   their manufacturing facilities when they'll soon be running out of backlog.
   If someone got 63 NextStations, I'm pretty sure that the rest of us are
   coming along, too.  Also, remember that they are only shipping 105s
   (so far as I'm aware), so if you ordered a bunch of 340s (now 400s)
   or other larger systems, they will be a little slower.

NeXT does have one of the most efficient factories in the world.  I
read an article about it in Fortune Magazine.  It's suppose to be as
amazing as the NeXT computer.

-Mike