Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!shelby!portia!Belarius From: alderson@Belarius (Rich Alderson) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Next computer Message-ID: <8913@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 7 Feb 90 02:35:06 GMT References: <8905@portia.Stanford.EDU> Sender: USENET News System Reply-To: alderson@jessica.stanford.edu (Rich Alderson) Organization: Stanford University Academic Information Resources Lines: 17 In-reply-to: underdog@portia.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) In article <8905@portia.Stanford.EDU>, underdog@portia (Dwight Joe) writes: >So, Jobs was squeezed out of the higher education market. The one thing that >Jobs didn't count on back in mid 1980 was the rise of the RISC machines. What >hurt him was the very long product development time of NEXT. He expected that >back in mid-1980 (when he conceived of NEXT) there would be nothing like RISC. Can you support the claim that Jobs was thinking about the NeXT box in 1980? He didn't even take a look at the Macintosh until 1982 or thereabouts--when they wouldn't let him have the Lisa to screw with. As far as I know, the NeXT box was designed AFTER Jobs left Apple, in response to his published statement of intent for what his new company would work on. Certainly, being a marketing weenie and not a techie, he didn't have any hand in designing the hardware itself. Rich Alderson alderson@jessica.stanford.edu