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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next and the competition
Message-ID: <17911@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 19 Dec 88 03:55:27 GMT
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Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
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      The problem NeXT must face is that they've shot their bolt long before
they can profit from it.  Everyone now knows what the NeXT machine can do,
and can get busy in providing similar capabilities for the Mac, Amiga, and
386-based architectures.  It's entirely possible that many of the capabilities
of the NeXT machine will be working on other machines before NeXT is shipping
iron in serious volume.  As of right now, their window of opportunity gets
a day shorter every day until volume shipments to commercial customers start.

      It would be interesting to see the NeXT software offered for the Mac
IIx, along with an emulation box which allowed the use of old Mac applications.
But this is unlikely, even though the hardware is reasonably suitable.


					John Nagle