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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore at FCC
Message-ID: <6131@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 90 20:33:08 GMT
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Reply-To: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Organization: Kodiak Software, Mountain View CA 94041
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(Jeffrey B Nicholson) writes:
)Lowering the price of CBM's Unix would help!  Also, lowering the price
)of the 3000 would be nice...but I agree that the NeXT is looking good,
)now only if it had some software...hmmm...

Hell, *announcing* C= UNIX would help.

It is beginning to look like NeXT has the *premier* software in each
major category, at least announced.  FrameMaker, Improv, Wingz, Sybase,
and, my favorite, NextStep, which *counts*.  The missing thing is
"critical mass" which means we can make some $$ developing for it,
even without the personal attention of Steve Jobs.

Thank God their video solutions only come in at the high end, but
again, they're hooked into the current top choice stuff (C-cubed's JPEG).

Predictions?  I think that Sun and Apollo will have no problems from
NeXT in the engineering community for a long while, but I hope they
smoke Apple and give us alternatives to PC-clones.

I don't think that it has much bearing on the Amiga role in high-end
office and non-video vertical market use, the Mac and PC seem to have
been holding the fort there.

	jimm

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