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In article <1992Dec12.023530.11426@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
>In article <1gbh7hINNn7v@agate.berkeley.edu> nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu (Nicholas C. Weaver (The Weeniehead)) writes:
>>
>>	Why do people make the assumption that NeXT will actually put out a
>>box based on the Intel chip?  I doubt NeXT would make hardware that is in
>
>	Because it would be the absolute stupidest thing NeXT
>	could *possibly* do.  While this logic might escape some,
>	real NeXT users know that this is all a part of NeXT's
>	secret plan to become the great domineering force of
>	computing.  Why, what else but devious planning could
>	account for actually *raising* prices on machines that had been 
>	out (but not upgraded) for a year..  HMMMMMmmm.

People aren't assuming that NeXT will put out an Intel box, they're
making educated guesses.

NeXT is actively asking potential customers if they want an Intel-based NeXT
box. I don't know the answers they are getting, but NeXT is asking the
question. I haven't known NeXT to let the cat out of the bag before
they've put a cat in the bag.

As far as why they would port NeXTSTEP to Pentium rather than to sexy
64-bit CPUs: Pentium is the upgrade path of tens of millions of machines
in the horizontal market as well as in vertical markets. Pentium makes perfect
sense for a firm who wants to sell the DOS of the 1990s--MIPS, Alpha,
Precision don't.

-- 
Yan Fang-Magnusson
Ph.D. candidate, philosophy, University of Utah
yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu
yanfang@cc.utah.edu (NeXTmail)