Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jm7e+ From: jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: The Late Great Apple // Message-ID: <0b0DS9u00Ud5M2N49K@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 26 Sep 90 18:46:33 GMT References: , <5620@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Organization: Computing Systems, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: <5620@mace.cc.purdue.edu> > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.apple2: 26-Sep-90 Re: The Late Great > Apple // Kareth@mace.cc.purdue.ed (1793) > >X11R4. NeXT came through. Blows the Mac //fx out of the water; can't > >even get an empty box from apple at that price. 'Nuff said. > This is absolutely wrong. No X stuff comes with the NeXT's, NONE. Gnu > Emacs and the Gnu Debugger come with the NeXT. I believe gcc comes with > the NeXT also, but not X. There ARE folks working on X ports to the > NeXT, No, X will not come bundled with the NeXTStation, but industry sources say that the MIT X-consortium is very close to the NeXTStep to X (and back) environment that I described. Once it has been released, X would be trivial to obtain; it's free and FTP'able from the Consortium. Many companies were having difficulty considering the NeXT platform unless X was available in some form. NeXT wants to sell computers, and at as low a price as $4995, they must sell in volume. For these reasons, I believe X will be available for the NeXT by the time they ship in earnest next year. . I can send my references to you if you wish. Of course, I am trying to steam down over this thing as NeXTStations have yet to be produced in volume, but that is the fault of Motorola and their 68040's not shipping in quantity. If this gets fixed, NeXT may well be the machine to buy.... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |Jeremy Mereness | Support | Ye Olde Disclaimer: | |jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (internet) | Free | The above represent my| |a700jm7e@cmccvb (Vax... bitnet) | Software| opinions, alone. | |staff/student@Carnegie Mellon U.| | Ya Gotta Love It. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------