🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <8079@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (David Palmer) writes:
<From what I hear of the NeXT machine (the wild rumors posted here from the
<Sept 19th issue of ?InfoWorld? and more reasonable rumors posted on
<a local bulletin board) I would pay ~$1000 for ROMs which would make
<Steve Job's hardware run like a Macintosh.  Alternatively, I would buy
<the Mac III, hardware equivalent to the NeXT, for $1000 more than I would
<pay for the NeXT.
<
<How about it, Apple?  If low production capability is the reason you are
<raising prices, you can just buy up NeXT's entire output, plug in new
<ROMS (production facilities for ROMs are very cheap and require little
<lead time) and make a killing  (~$950 a machine, plus the additional
<market share you cannot currently fill, plus being on the cutting
<edge again.)
<
Oh, but the NeXT ROMs sound incredible.  If they're half as good as they
are rumored to be, they would still be an interesting alternative to the
Mac OS.  Now if you could open up a Mac process on the NeXT machine in
its own window, I'd sell my Mac II and buy it in an instant.  But these
are just pipe dreams, no?  I'm getting pretty worried on this side, despite
my posting of a few days ago saying I'm glad I bought a Mac.  Maybe in 
a year....  The programmer's interface is the thing that's making me drool.
If I could only be guaranteed that good software would be available within 
months, and that the company would do well in the marketplace, so I don't
get stuck with a nice machine that isn't worth much (like the Lisa)....
*sigh*

-Sho