Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Next Machine Message-ID: <69684@sun.uucp> Date: 22 Sep 88 23:05:08 GMT References: <2658@sugar.uu.net> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 26 A couple of observations from someone who has seen many, many, computer announcements and such. A) Every new machine from a respected source develops something of a rumor-feature list. The NeXT machine is no exception. I remember the same sort of hoopla surrounding the PC jr announcement. The speculation on *that* machine was that it would be 286 based come with great color graphics, have the full 640K of RAM and cost less than a $1000. And look what showed up :-). This is not to say that the NeXT machine *won't* have everything it is rumored to have, heck I'm just as interested as the NeXT guy (:-) so many pun opportunities) but I am a firm believer in the realities of what some of the things that are in the NeXT box cost now, and could concieveably cost in the future and frankly it doesn't add up. Fortunately, we'll finally see it next month. (Did you hear the story about how Jobs wanted to have October dedicated to the machine? He try to get the governer proclaiming October as NeXT month but was told California couldn't very well go calling October, November now could it? It would confuse to many people. :-)) B) The grass is always greener two years down the road. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.