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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.
|
|As far as I know, the NeXT box was designed AFTER Jobs left Apple, in response
|to his published statement of intent for what his new company would work on.
|Certainly, being a marketing weenie and not a techie, he didn't have any hand
|in designing the hardware itself.
|

You might be right on the time period.  I thought that he had left
in the mid 80s.

My knowledge of the "long product development time" of the NEXT
comes from sundry mag. articles and, in particular, a PBS show.
I am sure of the "long product development time" that plagued the NEXT.
At the time of conception, which must have been before the PBS show,
Job could not possibly have thought that RISC would be a threat
to the NEXT because RISC just wasn't commercially popular at the
time of the PBS broadcast.