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From: mike@arizona.edu (Mike Coffin)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Next news --- Jobs and IBM
Message-ID: <7027@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 88 16:07:20 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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According to the NYTimes, Sept. 13, page 29:

The Next machine will be unveiled Oct. 12, at the Educom educational
computing conference in Washington D.C.  Features mentioned: 68030
processor, MACH operating system, 17in display, high-speed fax modem,
erasable CD storage [really?], television-quality video, and 50
Mbytes of dictionaries, almanacs, etc.

Also, Jobs has signed a $10 million agreement with IBM (!), selling
IBM the rights to the Next user interface.  IBM intends to use it on
their PC/RT workstations and other UNIX machines.
-- 
Mike Coffin				mike@arizona.edu
Univ. of Ariz. Dept. of Comp. Sci.	{allegra,cmcl2,ihnp4}!arizona!mike
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