> They really started out going for the academic market for years, but there really wasn't much demand there. Well they were already buying Sun and Sgi boxes.

> They really started out going for the academic market for years, but there really wasn't much demand there. Well they were already buying Sun and Sgi boxes. I don’t know the numbers, but I wouldn’t be surprised if those Unix machines were far better priced. NeXT suffered the same commercial challenges Apple faced. You have to develop things in THEIR world, albeit a more polished, user friendly one.