From: Woo Lee (vitcitylb_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Oct 26 2003 - 17:45:01 PST
Most of this explained by 'ex-NOSE' at smaller.com in the Forums section,
Newton Inc. had bigger customers than Merck, but was 'Steved' and not by
the 'bean counters'.
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>sell for, since Apple was in the process of spinning off Newton Inc. when
>they killed it. He said that Jobs decided not to spin Newton off because
>Apple could not afford to lose the skilled engineers who worked on the
Newt.
>He said that once Newton was terminated, the Newton engineers were
>reassigned to work on what eventually became OS X.
>
>I have long been one of the conspiracy theorists on this subject, but,
>having worked for a giant corporation for a number of years now, this
answer
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