mike@arizona.edu (Mike Coffin) (09/13/88)
According to the NYTimes, Sept. 13, page 29:
The Next machine will be unveiled Oct. 12, at the Educom educational
computing conference in Washington D.C. Features mentioned: 68030
processor, MACH operating system, 17in display, high-speed fax modem,
erasable CD storage [really?], television-quality video, and 50
Mbytes of dictionaries, almanacs, etc.
Also, Jobs has signed a $10 million agreement with IBM (!), selling
IBM the rights to the Next user interface. IBM intends to use it on
their PC/RT workstations and other UNIX machines.
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Mike Coffin mike@arizona.edu
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