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From: yam@nttmhs.ntt.jp (Toshihiko YAMAKAMI)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Next computer (Re: CISC Silent Spring)
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Date: 8 Feb 90 00:05:28 GMT
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From article <4791@helios.ee.lbl.gov>, by antony@lbl-csam.arpa (Antony A. Courtney):

> More relevant to the discussion of the NeXT is probably the comparison of the
> Lisa to the Mac.  The Lisa was slow, overpriced, and uncompetetive.  That
> wasn't of much importance.  The machine was important because it was a machine
> which people at apple could do R&D for.  The Macintosh embodied the design
> concepts of the Lisa, but it was very clear that the fundamental mistakes the
> engineers made were not repeated in the Mac.  If you look at the NeXT as a
> Lisa of sorts, then it is a very good machine.  

I agree.

When I was a computer science student in University of Tokyo, Japan,
I heard from one of assistant professors,
"In 20th century, American people were surprised three times.
 Hiroshima, Sputonik, Lisa. Hiroshima was the first atomic bomb.
 Sputonik, the first sattellite into space.
 Lisa, the first workstation with $10,000. It can write, draw, calculate,
 communicate, and schedule. That's all what we need in business."
It was 1983 maybe before Macintosh appeared (in Japan?).

Now it is 1990.
I am surprised at the power of Interface Builder.

So, I hope it can be executed faster in next NeXT, as done Lisa things
in Mac.

-- Toshihiko YAMAKAMI


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