c60c-4au@web-4e.berkeley.edu (11/19/88)
Steve Jobs himself came here to Berkeley last night (11-17-88) to demo
the NeXT computer. Some things he mentioned that night might be interesting:
TeX is being ported to the NeXT by 2 vendors - but he had no other information
about it.
When demoing the sound capabilities (he basically repeated the performance
from Davies Hall), he was able to do lookups in the dictionary with no
interruptions in the music. This was pretty impressive, even though it
makes sense since the music was using the DSP.
He said that while the Magneto-optical drive was not being used - it went
along and erased unused sections of the disk - so that when you want to
write something, the place has already been erased. This should save some
of the time in writing to the drive.
That's about all that he mentioned that I haven't heard mentioned over the
network. He was a great spokesman, and I loved his comment after people
asked about availability of the NeXT to people not affiliated with a
university:
"This is a new phenonema - people actually begging you to sell them your
computer"
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