Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!know!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better Message-ID: <46670@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 4 Apr 91 08:53:53 GMT References: <1991Apr3.033827.1716@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <.$2G0ysf1@cs.psu.edu> <1991Apr3.051014.5474@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Distribution: usa Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 41 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >In article <1991Apr3.051014.5474@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: > > How can you send fax without a modem or ethernet? Sure NeXT has > an ethernet port, buthow many people can afford an Internet connection? > Voice-Mail from one NeXT to Another in the same computer lab is about > as useful as making a telephone call from your bedroom to your basement. > >It works great acrossed campus. I'm not sure how many Fortune 500 >companies are using ethernet? Voice mail will work through a modem. >It's just a compress'ed tar file. And I guess you'd have to buy a fax >machine to send faxes. Fax machines are pretty common, ya know. So you're saying that a company or college can use voice mail or they can use their _already_existing_ telephone system. Sounds like Northern Telecom had better brace for a run on their business... ;-) Remember that nearly the same hype went on when the 030 NeXT was released. It wasn't long before the NeXT fell by the wayside. The software developers weren't making any money, and neither was NeXT. Software development by large companies came to a standstill. I predict that the same thing will happen today. The NeXT just doesn't have a good market. In the realm of personal computers, it a pricey machine with a handful of software titles (that are also quite pricey). In the business world, it has too many powerful competitors that offer more support (remember, businesses don't pay the educational price). In the video world, well, we know who has that tied up. ;) For music? There are many cheaper and more suited MIDI boxes. You might check into whether NeXT has ever shown a profit. You may be surprised... Greg -- Greg Harp |"How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two |lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year, greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu|running over the same ground. What have we found? s609@cs.utexas.edu |The same old fears. Wish you were here." - Pink Floyd