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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
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Date: 6 Apr 91 05:49:43 GMT
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In article <?#3Ga72i1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
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>From comp.sys.next.
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>From: jclee@cory.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Lee)
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
>Subject: NeXT Press Release
>Date: 5 Apr 91 08:37:50 GMT
>Reply-To: jclee@cory.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Lee)
>Organization: University of California, Berkeley
>
>
>The following is NeXT's press release on April 4. In the release it
>has 2 figures showing Q1'91 UNIX Workstation Shipments:
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>	SUN	44,000
>	HP	20,000
>	DEC	 8,000
>	IBM	12,000
>	NeXT	 8,000
>
>On Professional Workstation Shipments:
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>	SUN	11,000
>	NeXT	 8,000
>	HP	 3,000
>	DEC	 1,000
>	IBM	 1,000
>
>Here's the release:
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>NeXT SHIPS 8,000 CPUs IN FIRST QUARTER  Makes  NeXT  One  of
>Leading Professional Workstation Vendors
>
	Well, if you are going to post a totally stupid and
irrelevant press release, I figure I'll contribute my gratuitary
Amiga word.
	In Q1'91 Commodore sold 125,000 Amigas, and that is only
including Britain!
	The reason for the meaninglessness of your press release
is that there is some wierd distinction between UNIX and
Professional workstation, one makes them look better than the
other. Considering that all that has been shipping is the low-end
NeXT I hardly think it ranks beyond a normal UNIX ranking.
Besides, NeXT just released a new series of models. At this point
they are catching up on orders. Come 3rd calendar quarter sales
will probably be 1,000, putting them nowhere.
	Mike, either you believe the press-release is really
meaningful, in which case you know my opinion, or you will claim
you just posted it to be "informative", in which case why would
you post something of such mediocre informative quality if it
could only produce flames?
	-- Ethan

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A: None. It's a hardware problem.