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From: scott@mcs-server.gac.edu (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 88110 rumors
Message-ID: <SCOTT.91Jun14002211@mcs-server.gac.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 91 05:22:11 GMT
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In article <1991Jun12.200656.10243@linus.mitre.org> rtidd@kingpin.mitre.org (Randy Tidd) writes:
   Yes. I figured buying a NeXT Station 105 while I was still a student
   was a good get-my-foot-in-the-door trick, I hope I don't get hung out
   to dry when a machine with 3 times the performance comes out and I
   have no way to upgrade.

:-).  Seriously, though, there _will_ be a machine with 3x performance
(be it an 88000-base or 68040 running at 96.5Mhz), and those who
haven't kept up will be hung out to dry, in one way or another.

But, fortunately, your machine will _always_ work for what you bought
it for, if your expectations were reasonable.  And I doubt NeXT will
be terribly incompatible for the next 2 years or so (beyond two
years, it's a complete and total crap-shoot - in _any_ segment of
the computer industry).

Later,
--
scott hess                      scott@gac.edu
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