Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NEXT and the 68040? Message-ID: Date: 10 Mar 90 19:57:10 GMT References: <7910@tank.uchicago.edu> <8255@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <11036@june.cs.washington.edu> <1990Mar10.033031.6151@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Distribution: usa Organization: /home/psuvax1/melling/.organization Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: carlos@tybalt.caltech.edu's message of 10 Mar 90 03:30:31 GMT In article <1990Mar10.033031.6151@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> carlos@tybalt.caltech.edu (Carlos Salinas) writes: With all the new software being developed and color by the end of 1990, NeXT sales will definitely pick up. As for the factory, NeXT does not keep an inventory. NeXT practices just in time manufacturing. Carlos Salinas carlos@eeyore.caltech.edu NeXT Campus Consultant (Above is a NeXT account.) Caltech Where is all that NeXT software? I thought Wingz was coming out at the beginning of the year? A few word processors, spreadsheets, and database managers will sell alot more machines than a 68040 based machine. The rest of the world doesn't think in Drystones! -Mike