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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore at FCC
Message-ID: <14897@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Oct 90 03:35:20 GMT
References: <22107@grebyn.com> <1990Sep28.055905.9056@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Sep30.214206.18776@utstat.uucp>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Sep30.214206.18776@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>In article <1990Sep28.055905.9056@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey B Nicholson) writes:
>[in response to the pricing of the new NeXT's]

>>...but I agree that the NeXT is looking good, now only if it had some 
>>software...hmmm...

>The NeXT has plenty of software. Apart from the public domain stuff, it
>comes with Mathematica, Write Now, TeX, Lotus Improv,etc...

The NeXT does, currently, come with a some good application programs. 
When the non-optical disk units ship, they apparently come with less.
You can't count any package "available" until it ships.  You know, until
you can buy it.  The October 1990 Personal Workstation "Applications
Watch" counts 23 applications actually shipping for the NeXT at press
time.  Certainly more are on the way, but the same can be said for 
applications on any active operating system.  At preset, if the NeXT
doesn't come with the software you need, you stand a high chance of
being in trouble if you're just expecting that application to be available
on the market.  While the same can be said of any machine, NeXT right
now is on the bad end of the applications spectrum.  You can go out and
buy an MS-DOS machine with reasonable certainty that if a program for a
particular problem exists, you can run it on that machine.  All other
computer systems fit somewhere between the two, at least until a new,
non-compatible system is created by someone.  Of course, you buy a 
NeXT because you feel it may do what it currently does do better than
another system.  Same reason most of us own Amigas around here...

>Philip McDunnough


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