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isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes:
> Monty Solomon <roscom!monty@think.com> writes:
> >	SMCC INTRODUCES COLOR RISC WORKSTATION PRICED LESS THAN A PC
> [ details deleted ]
> 
> My own sense in all this is that a company NeXT's size cannot possibly
> compete in all arenas of workstation production with companies 1 or 2
> orders of magnitude greater in size (like Sun, IBM, DEC, HP, etc.).

  and

> So I hope that NeXT is spending its limited resources on porting
> NeXTSTEP to as many hardware architectures as possible rather than 
> on trying to decide what CPU to go with for the future, a decision
> fraught with pitfalls when one considers the choices and politics
> of each choice.

Sun was also many orders of magnitude larger than NeXT when NeXT released  
the NeXTstations.  Here it's a year or two later and Sun is just now  
catching the price/performance of the box that NeXT released that long ago.   
I don't think we should assume that NeXT *cannot* compete in hardware, when  
history has shown that they do a pretty reasonable job of competing there.

(though I should stress that I very much agree that it's about time for NeXT  
to think about repricing their hardware, and I also agree that I'd like to  
see NeXTSTEP ready for more hardware platforms)

Followups to csn.advocacy, where this kind of debate belongs.

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