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Article #1883Re: NeXT not revolutionary enough?
From: Tony Li
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 1988 20:02
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 1988 20:02
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In article <471@wucs1.wustl.edu> conrad@wucs1.wustl.edu (H. Conrad Cunningham) writes:
He maintained that the NeXT computer will be a failure because
it not revolutionary enough. Its only advantage is a short-term
hardware capability/pricing advantage over the other available
UNIX-based workstations. He sees the NeXT as trying to impose a
visual, object-oriented overlay ("a Smalltalk-like environment") onto a
text-oriented UNIX base. These he contended are incompatible
notions--they mix like "oil and water." The UNIX base insures that
the visual and sound-oriented capabilities can't be used in any truly
revolutionary way.
I recall that Sun Microsystems failed for exactly these same reasons.
;-)
Tony Li - USC University Computing Services - Dain Bramaged.
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