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From: dcarpent@sjuvax.UUCP (D. Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT rumors
Message-ID: <2171@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: 19 Aug 89 01:25:43 GMT
References:  <12670035@eecs.nwu.edu> <17312@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: dcarpent@sjuvax.UUCP (D. Carpenter)
Organization: St. Joseph's University, Phila. PA.
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In article <17312@ut-emx.UUCP> johno@walt.cc.utexas.edu (John H. Osborn) writes:
>[Lots and lots of talk about the next NeXT from lots of people]
>
>All this talk about new machines that may or may not be compatible
>with the current Cube certainly cause me some concern about buying
>a current generation (and almost out of date, no less!) machine from
>NeXT.  Anybody else feel the same way?
>
For what it is worth, the local NeXT sales account manager told me, in
response to my question concerning an upgrade path, that NeXT intends
to build upon the platform of the original Cube, and not obsolete it
by introducing incompatible enhancements.  She made this comment in the
context of my purchasing a machine, and I expressed the very concern and
nervousness that you note here.  Nothing that I have read on
comp.sys.next over the past few weeks has given me reason to doubt what
she said.  On the contrary, the recent posting by Bruce Henderson spoke
of 100% upgradability.  So rumors and official pronouncements seem to
correspond pretty well.  I bought one, and I don't think I'll regret
it.

>John H. Osborn     * University of Texas at Austin
>walt.cc.utexas.edu * "Hey, was that 'kill 1 -1' or 'kill -1 1'?"


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