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From: mlinar@eve.usc.edu (Mitch Mlinar)
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Subject: Re: what's the latest on Job's NeXT box?
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Date: 17 Sep 88 19:45:11 GMT
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In article <333@nyit.UUCP> tmg@nyit.UUCP (Tom Genereaux) writes:
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>The New York Times has an article in today's (Sept. 15th) issue reporting that
>NeXT will release the box on Oct. 12. We'll see. The article also implied that
>part of the delay was a bit of schizophrenia on what market(s) the machine was
>targeted for. The same article also announced that IBM has entered a strategic
>partnership with NeXT...
>				Tom Genereaux


Gad!  The NY Times certainly has terse reporting here, if not wrong.  Here is
an update, Tom:

NeXt *will* be shown to the public on Oct. 12 (11?) in San Francisco at a
large convention hall (name slips my mind) that has already been rented at
big $$$.  Therefore, if Jobs REALLY wants to make an ass of himself, he might
miss it.  I doubt it.

Second, Jobs has *licensed* the NeXt user interface to IBM to use on their
PC/RT.  Basically, that means he is selling the code to them, but not doing
it with them (as in partnership).  I don't recall reading anything about it
being an exclusive license, either.

Of all the stuff I have read, it seems that Jobs is steering his NeXt
computer towards the academic environment.  With Suns and MacIIs to compete
against there, I wish him luck.....

At USC, Suns are *the* dominant machine and are all over campus.  There are
still more IBMs than MacIIs, but there are ALWAYS a few IBMs free even in the
worst user crunch.  Nobody really wants to use them.  MacIIs and Suns are
still being bought whenever money allows it.

-Mitch