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> (it was competing against Sun, DEC and SGI workstations which were also very expensive, so the price was not really out of line in that context -- only if you
by altcognito 14y ago
> (it was competing against Sun, DEC and SGI workstations which were also very expensive, so the price was not really out of line in that context -- only if you compare it to PCs, which you shouldn't.)
Except that it is the only comparison that ended up mattering. PC obliterated the workstation market.
- erikj 14y agoAnd killed a lot of really good things along the way, like Lisp machines and their unique operating systems.
- pjmlp 14y agoQuite true. For one, it would show all young developers that there was a time where OS were implemented in languages other than C. And also that Live Editing so trendy nowadays, was already available in the early 80's in the form of Lisp Machines and Smalltalk.
- ebbv 14y agoEventually. But NeXT had failed way before that happened. NeXT got bought out by Apple about the same time that the workstation market collapsed.