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From: mkh6317@rigel.tamu.edu (HOWARD, MATTHEW KENDALL)
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Subject: Re: The Fate of the Macintosh
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Date: 22 Mar 91 16:22:42 GMT
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In article <1991Mar22.145326.27445@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu>, medlin@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu (Roger Medlin) writes...

Welcome, welcome.  So you want to see the future.  Come in. Come in.
Ah, I see you are a NeXt user.  Sit down. Sit down.

Lets peer into my crystal ball.  Yes, yes, its all becoming clear now.
I can see shadows of the future.   NeXT is not there.  While it was the 
first to deliver an 040 it was only the first of many.  Apple releases an 
040 in 1991 and continues to be a HUGELY profitable enterprise.  NeXT can 
no longer afford to dump its machines. NeXT investors finally break free 
of SJ's smooth and hypnotic spell they realize what a bad bad financial 
mistake they've made.  Refusing to wait another 4 years to see their first 
yen of profit they pull out.  Even the Mac emulator, developed with great
labor and TREMENDOUS legal expense, fails to save the NeXT.

NeXT owners are stuck just as the Atari, TI, Timex, S100, Commodore, 
MindSet, and other "leading edge bang for your buck consumers" were 
except that this time they are stuck with something that cost 5 times 
as much.
            ... ah the crystal grows cloudy again.....