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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's?
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Date: 16 Dec 89 19:05:39 GMT
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>>> NeXT is notorious for missing
>>> ship dates; they've missed the date for color before already.
>>
>> NeXT has so far a pretty good record for KEEPING the things
>> they promised. Including deadlines. The only time so far...
>
>Nope. They told us we would have the machine with a real OS (or they implied
>it would have a real OS by telling us the machine would be ready) about 6
>months before it actually shipped. And they told us they would have color
>NeXT month, January (this was a rep we had on campus last summer).
>

It is completely irrelevant, what a rep. tells you on campus. If
he tells stuff like this, NeXT should make him shut up, because
he harms NeXT.
The only relevant things, are what you get as an official press
release. This does not mean, that any rumor and specualtion you
can find in some newspaper is true, but when you have the
company spokesmen/womyn releasing official statements to the
press, then it is relevant. And so far these announcements did
hold pretty well.

Ronald
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