Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucla-cs!ucla-ma!pico!barry From: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: 88110 rumors Message-ID: <1991Jun14.172316.10315@math.ucla.edu> Date: 14 Jun 91 17:23:16 GMT References: <20497@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1991Jun12.173849.7258@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <1991Jun12.200656.10243@linus.mitre.org> Sender: news@math.ucla.edu Organization: UCLA Dept. of Math, UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research Lines: 28 In article scott@mcs-server.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes: >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. > Just be glad that NeXT keeps pushing the technology forward. We need a company like NeXT for that reason, and conversely, NeXT can only justify their existence by doing so. They're not big enough to rest on their laurels (or is that lawyers :-), like some unnamed companies :-) The one thing we don't want is for NeXT to become like Apple/IBM: bound to the first systems they ever introduced, and with backward compatability always their first priority. A much better paradigm is to always push the technology, but provide a good uprgrade path for users and developers. -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet) barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (NeXTMail)