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From: rock@lighthouse.com (Roger Rock Rosner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: UniForum news
Message-ID: <1990Jan24.001558.22128@lighthouse.com>
Date: 24 Jan 90 00:15:58 GMT
Organization: Lighthouse Design, Ltd.
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Well, just got back from the UniForum show.  NeXT had no booth, but a
few companies were there with cubes:

- Adobe: showing their type library (many, many fonts),
- Frame: showing Framemaker of course, 
- Informix: showing a beta of WingZ (incredibly slow),
- Mindcraft: showing a C portability verifier (extended lint).

The most interesting thing from my perspective was the IBM booth (more
like a coliseum) where they had a PS/2 Model 80 running AIX with, you
guessed it, NextStep on top.  So I guess it's pretty real.  There was
not much demo software, just IB, BreakApp, etc.  The machine was
vastly under-powered, but things were stable.  Needless to say, the
IBM droid divulged no dates but admitted IBM would definitely release
NextStep (probably a few months after the machine introduction).

The lack of a major NeXT presence was an inexcusable omission.  Every
other major hardware maker was there: HP, DEC, IBM, Sun, Sony, and on
and on.

Roger Rosner
Lighthouse Design, Ltd.
NeXT Mail: rock@lighthouse.com or ...!uunet!lighthouse!rock