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From: isaacso@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Eric J. Isaacson)
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Subject: Re: NeXT Invitation
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Date: 31 Aug 90 01:14:19 GMT
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jasmerb@mist.cs.orst.edu (Bryce Jasmer) writes:

>The Lotus on the first page is actually on the second page and you see it
>through a hole cut out of the first page. When you open it up, here is a
>list of "other industry partners" that you see.

...
>Coda
...

>I've heard of most of these and have guesses for what they are going to
>produce (WordPerfect I would assume is going to do a word processor.)
>So does anyone have speculation (or knowledge) on what the others are
>going to do.

Coda is the maker of Finale--the premiere music printing program for
the Mac, with a relatively recent version for the PC.  (They also make
a scaled down version for the Mac called Music Prose.)  I guess I can
safely confirm that they have been doing work on the NeXT, although
I'd be surprised if they had something ready to distribute on the
18th.  Nevertheless, Coda's entry into the NeXT software market will
be a big boost for the machine among musicians not interested in the
types of sound synthesis research already well established on the
machine.

Eric J. Isaacson (the other)      Internet: isaacso@ucs.indiana.edu
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