Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!yap
From: yap@hammer.me.toronto.edu ()
Date: Sun Oct 16 18:15:53 EDT 1988
Message-ID: <17977.1988Oct16.18:15:53@hammer.me.toronto.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.next
Subject: Re: NeXT wave of computers? or: It's already been done!
References: <7773@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: yap@hammer.me.UUCP (Davin Yap)
Organization: University of Toronto Mechanical Engineering

Richard Sexton writes:
>Henry Spencer writes:
>>Robert Knighton writes:
>>>	...  But I still want COLOR!
>>
>>Not to be cynical or anything, but what for?
>
>Not to be irreverent, but we are the customers, and we want it.

Not to be nasty, buy you are NOT the customers, at least not yet.  And by the
time you are the customers, you'll have it.  There seems to be two very good
reasons for the display being the way it is now.  First, a matter of time,
rumour has it that Pixar is working on the colour (notice the British spelling!)
for the Next box, but they're not ready yet.  Meanwhile, the Next announcement
date kept being pushed back, and scepticism grew, they couldn't wait any
longer.  Second, a matter of price, with the initial target market being poor
universities/students, they had to keep the initial price as low as possible
to keep our hopes up for another 9 months (at least that's how long I figure
it'll be before I see one).

Davin.

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