[SunRescue] G3 upgrade for PowerMac 7300

Bill Bradford rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Apr 16 22:59:02 CDT 2001


On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:41:30PM -0500, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> ObSun:  Scott McNealy hated how Jobs would breeze into an account Sun was
> trying to win, and put the "Jobsian reality distortion field" to work.  Sun
> would lose the account.  The canonical NS demo was to build a working RTF
> word processor with the GUI tools - in 5 minutes.  Couldn't exactly do that
> with X Windows/Open Look...

I have the video tape that NeXT sent out as a promo, putting a NS programmer
head to head with a guy on a SS20 and all the Sun tools.  While the Sun
guy was still hacking away, the NS guy was playing pool cuz his stuff was
done..

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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