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From: izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Who will buy the NeXT
Keywords: NeXT
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Date: 7 Dec 89 10:18:53 GMT
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>In article <21632@ut-emx.UUCP> kdp9565@walt.cc.utexas.edu 
>(Keith D. Perkins) writes:
>>
>>	About whether the NeXT will sell or not, it depends on a lot of
>>factors. IMHO, the biggest obsticle to overcome is the compatibility
>>problems. If the NeXT had a DOS or MAC window that it could open and 
>>run those operating systems programs, it would sell a lot better.

I don't know.  I would RATHER have NeXT spend their time to
develop better native NeXT applications than have them screw
around with compatibility window programs which are compatible 95%
(or any %tage you like) at best.

Seriously, does anybody actually USE such things in a non-temprary
manner?  There was once such a thing called "Mac-Charlie" for 
emulating PC on Mac.  Have you seen one?   Amiga tried to put PC
bus into their boxes.  Does anybody actually have Intel processor
board in their Amiga?  There was once a CP/M board for PC's.
I don't think these things are worth the effort, other than to
keep dumb industry analysts happy.

NeXT should just strive to deliver and demonstrate that they have
much better Apps worth switching over to.

They should, however, make these switches as easy as possible
for anyone contemplating a switch.  Capability of WriteNow and
FrameMaker to read RTF files is great.  There should be many more
of these conversion utilities which are easy to use.
E.g., WordPerfect to RTF converter, 1-2-3 to WingZ converter.

Izumi Ohzawa
izumi@violet.berkeley.edu