Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!uunet!brunix!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: new NeXT Message-ID: <50932@brunix.UUCP> Date: 24 Sep 90 20:29:49 GMT References: <1990Sep20.214607.1515@midway.uchicago.edu> <2412@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Distribution: usa Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 24 In article <2412@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> jmann@angmar.sw.stratus.com (Jim Mann) writes: >Excel is better than Wingz. This is new to me... >Word is much, much better than WordPerfect (yuch). On the Mac, yes. On PC's and on all the UNIX and VMS machines certainly not. (Not even to speak about the fact that Word is not available on some of these machines). WordPerfect is still the most portable text processing program. >By the way, are there DOS and OS/2 versions of Wingz yet? Yes there is at least a Windows 3.0 version around. Ronald PS: If you find a GOOD Microsoft product, please tell me. I always like to know new things. I haven't come across one yet. But then, what else than brain damaged software do you expect on a brain damaged XYZ-compatible computer? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet