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When the hype died down, the reaction to the NeXT computer was muted, especially since it was not yet commercially available.
當宣傳炒作平息下來后，市場對NeXT電腦的反應平淡，尤其是它還未上市銷售。
Bill Joy, the brilliant and wry chief scientist at rival Sun Microsystems,
比爾·喬伊是競爭對手Sim公司的首席科學家，聰明幽默，
called it "the first Yuppie workstation," which was not an unalloyed compliment.
他稱NeXT為“第一款雅皮士終端”，這應該是有保留的恭維。
Bill Gates, as might be expected, continued to be publicly dismissive.
比爾·蓋茨一如既往地對NeXT進行公開批駁。
"Frankly, I'm disappointed," he told the Wall Street Journal.
“坦白地說，我很失望。”他告訴《華爾街日報》，
"Back in 1981, we were truly excited by the Macintosh when Steve showed it to us,
“1981年，當喬布斯向我們展示麥金塔的時候，我們真的因此而激動，
because when you put it side-by-side with another computer, it was unlike anything anybody had ever seen before."
因為當你把它和別的電腦放在一起時，它不同于以往任何機器。”
The NeXT machine was not like that.
NeXT電腦不是這樣。
"In the grand scope of things, most of these features are truly trivial."
“整體來看，它的大部分功能都真的無足輕重。”
He said that Microsoft would continue its plans not to write software for the NeXT.
他說，微軟將繼續其計劃，不為NeXT編寫軟件。
Right after the announcement event, Gates wrote a parody email to his staff.
在NeXT的發布會后，蓋茨給自己的員工寫了一封詼諧的郵件。
"All reality has been completely suspended," it began.
“所有現實都被完全擱置。”郵件開頭寫道。
Looking back at it, Gates laughs that it may have been "the best email I ever wrote."
回想起這封郵件，蓋茨笑著說這可能是“我寫過的最好的郵件”。
When the NeXT computer finally went on sale in mid-1989, the factory was primed to churn out ten thousand units a month.
1989年中，NeXT電腦終于開始銷售了，工廠已經準備好每月生產10000臺
As it turned out, sales were about four hundred a month.
結果這款電腦每月的銷量只有約400臺。
The beautiful factory robots, so nicely painted, remained mostly idle, and NeXT continued to hemorrhage cash.
漂亮的工廠機器人被噴刷得很好，卻只能閑置著，而NeXT還在繼續燒錢。
