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In article <1992Dec13.052608.17922@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
>In article <1992Dec13.032244.6133@fcom.cc.utah.edu> yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang/Humanities) writes:
>>As far as why they would port NeXTSTEP to Pentium rather than to sexy
>			  ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
>
>	And that was *exactly* the right thing for them to do.  
>	But releasing software for a hardware platform is not necessarily
>	tied to NeXT releasing the hardware platform themselves.
>
>	Point:  There is no way that NeXT can compete in the 	
>	Intel based PC market.  I would be surprised if they 	
>	could offer prices competitive with the systems IBM 
>	and compaq are shipping these days, let alone the
>	Death Clones (tm) coming in from everywhere.
>
>-- 
> Snout: O Bottom, thou art chang'd!  What do I see on thee?          
> Bottom: What do you see?  You see an ass-head of your own, do you?  
> ---"I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they----
> ----aren't even superficial"    --Nietzsche   ---------------------

I don't think NeXT wants to become a clone manufacturer; they just want to
sell integrated hardware for their killer environment. Many customers are
willing to pay a premium price for integrated hardware for a specific
environment; those customers are generally corporations purchashing
hundreds of tubes and want the least headache and grief money can buy. On
the other hand, the horizontal market--home users, small business,
etc.--wants to minimize cost and is more willing to deal with the
frustration (joy) of putting together a clone system. Either way, NeXT
would have it covered by manufacturing Intel-based NeXt hardware.



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