Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!news From: lacsap@media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: USENIX Summer 1991 and the absence of NeXT Message-ID: <1991Jun15.201535.11019@news.media.mit.edu> Date: 15 Jun 91 20:15:35 GMT References: Sender: news@news.media.mit.edu (USENET News System) Organization: MIT Media Laboratory Lines: 25 In article scd@math.ufl.edu (Steve C Donahue) writes: > > I am currently attending the summer USENIX conference in Nashville. The > theme of the conference is "MULTIMEDIA FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE". I was > amazed to find that NeXT does not have a vendor booth. One of the strong > points of the NeXT is the fact that it lends itself so well to multimedia > applications. The only NeXT machines that I have seen are MIT's > NeXTstation color and Pencom's cube (demonstrating co-Xist). [...] > Steve Donahue Internet: scd@cis.ufl.edu > CIS Engineering NeXTmail: uflorida!thecube!steve > University of Florida USENIX was boring, NeXT saved itself money by not having a booth, but instead providing a spectacular live presentation led Avie Tevanian, Trey Matteson, David Jaffe, and Bryan Yamamoto. I find that one big coherent presentation is far more valuable than spending three days on the USENIX exhibition floor (which I did, it sucks). pasc -- Pascal Chesnais, Research Specialist, Electronic Publishing Group Media Laboratory, E15-351, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Ma, 02139 (617) 253-0311 email: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (NeXT)