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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by oblio on Thursday July 26, 2018 @08:51AM (#17617007)
That distortion field is very powerful, I see. NeXT failed as an enterprise. It was close to going the way of the Lisp Machines.
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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by mattl on Thursday July 26, 2018 @10:58AM (#17617967)
Oh yeah. I have no doubt they were failing. But those two pieces of tech were very smart for their time.
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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by oblio on Thursday July 26, 2018 @11:20AM (#17618142)
Yes, I, too, saw that demo from the 80's. But the best tech doesn't always win :)
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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by mattl on Thursday July 26, 2018 @02:42PM (#17619798)
I don’t think EOF is from the 80s. WebObjects certainly isn’t.
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