[CUBE] MS builds a Cube

[Eagle]

On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 03:06 US/Eastern, Sensei (Eliezer 
Navarsky) wrote:
> On Thursday, Wed, 7 May 2003 14:07:13 +0200, Joakim Skog" 
> <joakim.skog at home.se>:
>> Yesterday HP and MS released information on Athens, a new prototype 
>> desktop
>> PC. It's quiet, small and looks almost like a Cube...
>
> So what else is new?!... I, for one, am pretty used to having had 
> something for years and then to see some PC vendor and/or M$ sales 
> person hawk the same thing as some sort of revolutionary new 
> innovation...
>
> <start rant>
>
> What really irks me is that the hacks who call themselves 
> Technology/IT journalists lap it all up as manna from heaven with nary 
> a reference to the original... More often then not, after having puh 
> puhed the very same innovation when it came out of Cupertino...
>
> <end rant>

If you want to be REALLY specific, then you'll mention Steve's _first_ 
Cube - the NeXT.  It came out of Redwood City, not Cupertino. ;)

Eagle