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From: alan@oz.nm.paradyne.com (Alan Lovejoy)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Next computer
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Date: 7 Feb 90 15:40:40 GMT
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In article <8913@portia.Stanford.EDU< alderson@jessica.stanford.edu (Rich Alderson) writes:
<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.

I presume that Dwight is the victim of a typo.  By "mid 1980," I think he
meant "mid 1980s."  Makes a big difference.      


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