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Article #2250Re: why NeXT is still having credibility problems
From: Izumi Ohzawa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 06:39
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 06:39
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In article <MS-C.716532025.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> Mark Crispin <mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> writes: > >I though that ordering some additional DSP memory might help some >problems I had been having with music. I called up NeXT to order it. > >I also found out from the fellow at NeXT that DSP memory is `not >listed as a product available to ship.' Great. Now they tell me. I >ordered vaporware. It is certainly listed, and I ordered 3 of them recently and got them in 3 weeks approximately. Part#, name etc are as follows. N7013 DSP 96KB Memory Expansion Kit By the way, I don't think MusicKit will start using additional DSP RAM automatically. At least 2.1 MusicKit driver/monitor is hard-assembled for 8kword stock configuration. >NeXT's order management system (running on a NeXT, perchance?) does >not have the capability to look up an user by the customer's name. >The person I talked to at NeXT said as much. Now, any vendor in the >Mac world would be laughed out of the market if they couldn't look up >a customer's order by his name. Hmmm. I wonder what happened to the "mission-critical application" development for their own use. They've had NeXTSTEP for full 3 years and still doesn't have a decent order management system? -- Izumi Ohzawa [ $BBg_78^=;(J ] USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (510) 642-6440 Fax: (510) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (NeXT Mail OK)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!agate!usenet From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: why NeXT is still having credibility problems Date: 15 Sep 1992 06:39:20 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 38 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1940eoINNgu5@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <MS-C.716532025.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> Reply-To: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: moica.berkeley.edu