8 Oct
2011
8 Oct
'11
5:19 p.m.
On 08/10/11 7:57 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Now we're done beating Apple down, we can talk about what NeXT did that
was ahead of its time. :)
- booted from Apple, Jobs sold all but one Apple share for a $400m windfall.
- Founded NeXT with $7m and A LOT to prove.
- Spec'd a ridiculous dream workstation: DSP, MO, 12" cube magnesium
chassis, matt black, exotic UNIX, Display PostScript, Objective C,
megapixel display with grey scale (and later, deep colour).
NeXT is therefore a vanity product & its failure in the market was
predictable. Discuss.
--T
There's a
difference between being able to find some obscure adapter,
and making SCSI integral in motherboards, which Apple did with the Mac
Plus ~ 1987 and successive products.
Let me make sure that I understand your point.
Shugart ST01 was "obscure"?
I don't think that anybody is claiming that Apple was not the LARGEST user
of SCSI for a brief period of time.