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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore at FCC
Message-ID: <90268.122650UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 25 Sep 90 16:26:50 GMT
References: <22107@grebyn.com> <14568@cbmvax.commodore.com> <22153@grebyn.com>
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In article <14621@cbmvax.commodore.com>, daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave
Haynie) says:

>In article <22153@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies)
>writes:
>>In article <14568@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave
>Haynie) writes:

>>>But there's not all that much NeXTStep software.  The largest market for

but this could change in time.  Lots of people seem pretty excited about
NeXT's future since the new announcements last week.  One of the amazing
footnotes came from Word Perfect Corporation.  They redeveloped a new
NeXTified word processor from the ground up using NeXTSTeP, and claimed
that they have reached beta testing after only 3 months, which is also
3 months ahead of schedule.

The IEEE journal SOFTWARE has a special issue about software specification,
and one of the articles labels the NeXT InterfaceBuilder software with
something like ...the only true fourth generation User Interface Development
System currently available...

I see a parallel here with the Amiga/Atari wars of the mid 80s.  People
who could really see could tell that Amiga was superior, yet Atari's sold
like hotcakes (because...).  But gradually, quality won out.  Now, I think
that people who can really see can tell that Interface Builder is superior,
and in time the rest of the world will come around.

Lastly, why am I telling you this in an Amiga newsgroup.  Just because I'd
like to see Commodore position the Amiga as a baby NeXT.  This might include
porting ObjC and the Interface Builder, and so forth.  The idea might
be that a dozen NeXTs ($120,000) and a hundred Amigas  ($250,000, for a total s
of $370,000) is better than the equivalently priced 37 (or so) NeXTs).

                                                                      lee
computer
power than two dozen NeXTs.