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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NextStep Receives Fluegelman Award
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Date: 29 Mar 90 15:09:32 GMT
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In article <2458@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU>, barry@mesquite.math.ucla.edu (Barry
Merriman) says:
>
>And what, prey tell, might these 18 products be? Would someone care
>to list them? Inquiring NeXT owners want to know!
>
>For example: is Wingz available yet or not? (and at what price....?)
>

Take a look at a recent issue of Personal Workstation (used to be MIPS, no?)
magazine.  The last page each issue is an APPLICATION WATCH where they
list and count "Number of shipping applications" for NextStep, OS/2-PM,
Motif, and Open Look.  The April 90 issue scores them 22, 18, 3, 12
respectively.

BTW, PW reports Wingz is shipping for all three of the Unix environments
above.

While I'm here.  There is a comparison review in the same issue of low
cost systems---Apollo 2500, Hawk II 486, NeXT, DG AViiON, and HP 345.
(They also discuss the high end Amigas and Macs, but they aren't in the
review.)

"Of five low-cost Unix workstations...the NeXT offers the most features
and the DG AViiON gives you the best price/performance."