Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!portal!sv!moose From: moose@svc.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: They Are shipping in volume??? Message-ID: <1991Jan15.175154.12394@svc.portal.com> Date: 15 Jan 91 17:51:54 GMT References: <1991Jan10.225501.10174@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU> <278E3748.18058@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1991Jan13.143735.5836@macc.wisc.edu> Organization: Software Ventures Corporation, Berkeley Lines: 23 In article smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) writes: > >Must be nice. We ordered back in August, still nothing. >Be interesting to know how the things are allocated. I noticed >NeXT has started taking out full page adds in the compute rags >saying something like "they're shipping - in volume". To WHO? To people who order machines by the thousands. Even developers sometimes have to take a back seat. I received my upgrade over a month after NeXT received their first shipment of 040's, and NeXT loves me. The good news is that NeXT is back-ordered to the point that they can't fill peoples orders immediately. The bad news is that nobody likes to wait. The only reason we have our 040 upgrade now as opposed to late January is that we brought it to Mac World and some major favors were pulled to get as many NeXT at MacWorld as possible. -- Michael Rutman | moose@svc.portal.com Cubist | makes me a NeXT programmer Software Ventures | For Your Eyes Only Public Key