Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!transfer!lectroid!vineland.pubs.stratus.com From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Why NextStep is not on RS/6000 Message-ID: <5684@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> Date: 20 May 91 15:08:59 GMT References: Sender: usenet@lectroid.sw.stratus.com Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com Lines: 28 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > > In article <2335@netmbx.UUCP> perstoro@netmbx.UUCP (Wilhelm Schaefer) writes: > > In my opinion this was (is) the reason that IBM-DOS had conquered > the market. Let's hope steve wan't do the same mistake again, else > the user would had have to suffer the consequences again... > > No, the IBM cloners conquered the market because Apple didn't have a > Classic. In other words, their machines were too expensive. If NeXT > can release a $2995 computer they can(IMHO) grab a serious piece of > the market. For now, though, I think they're only targeting Fortune > 500, other large corporations, and education. But those two points are related. IBM didn't produce a "classic" (i.e., low price) model either. The clone makers did, thus allowing lots of people to buy into the MS-DOS world. It also gave software developers more machines to develop for, thus increasing the amount of software available, which in turn caused more people to buy DOS machines. If NeXTStep ran on multiple platforms, more developers would develop more for it, thus increasing the amount of software available (which is probably the biggest minus for the NeXT right now -- not enough software available). Jim Mann jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com Stratus Computer