Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!TRINCC.BITNET!REWING
From: REWING@TRINCC.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Next and Sound
Message-ID: <8810212103.aa01327@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Date: 22 Oct 88 02:02:00 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 31

First of all, BELIEVE IT.  Apple is committed to bigger and better
Mac products which have been in development long before the next
announcement.  It helps when your engineers are power junkies and
have a big R&D budget to boot (hell, it bought a cray).

Second, if you really believe that NeXT will be able to sell "the cube"
at $6500 to everyone, then Jobs has you for a sucker.  When the machine
finally is available for mass consumption (2nd quarter '89?), it will
probably be around $10 grand.  I've talked to a few of our engineers
and they say its nice on paper, but then they smile alot and begin
acting real strange like they've got something up their sleeve.
I'm sure that Sun and Apollo aren't napping either.  IF Jobs had introduced
the machine a year ago like he was supposed to, he would have really
busted some heads.  Now he's only slightly ahead of everyone with the
window closing rapidly.  Andwith some companies the window is only
90 to 120 days.

Oh me?  I actually like the NeXT machine for one thing:  programming.
Its about time that someone made the task alot easier than Mac
programming.  HE'll have the lead on that for awhile.  I do hope he
doesn't make the same mistake with the Mac and only supports one
or two languages like I've heard.  Education sites love the latest thing,
and will change to suit their needs in a heartbeat.

And finally, Apple II development continues on!  And stronger than ever!
Nuff said.

--Rick Ewing
  Apple Atlanta

PS. The Motorola sound chip *is* sweet.  I sure hope we're thinking about
that chip more in future plans.