Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!olivea!oliveb!amdahl!JUTS!duts!kls30 From: kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga/NeXT flames (Was Re: Amiga OS *IS* state...) Message-ID: Date: 11 Apr 91 14:38:02 GMT References: <46907@ut-emx.uucp> <12622@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Reply-To: kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shephard) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 43 In article <12622@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes: >In article <> kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shepard) writes: > >>Oh! Those people could not be wrong. NeXT is a company worth more than >>$600,000,000 this is actually before they produced a single machine. Last >>year they made ~$100 million. > >Just out of curiosity -- where are you getting your numbers? > >I was under the impression that NeXT was a privately held company. >Furthermore, I heard that they had sold only 15,000 of their original >machines. At ten-thousand a shot, something doesn't add up -- unless, >*gasp* there were 15,000 suckers born last year. :) They are a privitely held company. Forbes and other magazines estimated the worth of the company based on investment from Cannon, Roth Periot, Steve Jobs, and a couple of others that own a piece of the pie. What doesn't add up? 15k * 10k = 150 million. Now all machines didn't sell for 10k, some sold for less so my figure of ~$100 million is valid. > >David Navas navas@cory.berkeley.edu > 2.0 :: "You can't have your cake and eat it too." >Also try c186br@holden, c260-ay@ara and c184-ap@torus BTW - for all of you who think a NeXT is slow, I have news for you. My '030 cube was not slow and now that I have a '040 upgrade board it really is NOT slow. Also there are a couple of animation demos in the software release and they are NOT slow. Before you blast a NeXT on how slow it is, work on one. 2.0 also has a faster kernal and some other speed improvements. I wouldn't trade my NeXT for any other computer on the market. Oh yea, my NeXT has faster response than the SPARCstation 1+ on my desk running Motif. Kent -- /* -The opinions expressed are my own, not my employers. */ /* For I can only express my own opinions. */ /* */ /* Kent L. Shephard : email - kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com */