Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!sun-barr!ccut!tansei!b39756 From: b39756@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Kunii Lab.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT.Canon.Japanese Summary: Beta of Kanji OS/Edit seen... Message-ID: <5287@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: 2 Jun 90 13:35:30 GMT References: Organization: Computer Center, University of Tokyo, Japan Lines: 34 On 14 Apr 90 10:50:36 GMT, hh0x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hiroshi Rit Howell) wrote >Anybody know the latest information of NeXT and Japanese capability >(Canon is supposed to be working on this)? Last thing I heard was that >Kanji NeXT is going to be released in three years(!!) or so? Is this >correct at all and were there any changes made on the plan? I saw the Japanese version of Edit at the 60th Annual Business Show held May 16-19 here in Tokyo, at the Harumi Convention Center. Canon had a tasteful, quite large booth devoted to the NeXT, and showed FrameMaker and a few other applications. What drew the crowd (besides the Steve Jobs video) was the demo of kanji entry. The demonstrator entered romaji which the software then converted (in-line) to kanji. The size was around 12 point and couldn't be changed. Nor, apparently, could it be edited. The characters looked a little rough, too, but I'm sure they will look great in the release version. The stuff at the show was very, very beta, but it is a beginning, and I for one am glad to see it. No definite release date yet, although at the machine's introduction last year Canon talked about the end of 1990. I don't know if they will make it by then, but I'm sure it won't take anywhere near three years! ************************ Arthur Kyle kyle@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp [don't use this one if you can help it.] kyle%is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp@utokyo-relay.csnet [This should be OK.] kyle%is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp%utokyo-relay.csnet@uunet.uu.net [This too.] Disclaimer: At this moment, I (technically) don't even have an employer. All opinions are my own, errant though they may be. ************************