Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!khcg0492 From: khcg0492@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kenneth Holden Chang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!! Message-ID: <1990Nov7.162633.23306@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 7 Nov 90 16:26:33 GMT References: <1990Nov4.084938.22146@cs.ucla.edu> <15549@venera.isi.edu> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 33 In article ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes: >On 06-Nov-90 in Re: Not another NeXT defect.. >user Jeff Sullivan@ISI.EDU writes: >>The other problem with NeXT seems to be that lack of a VARIETY fo >>software. Not that there isn't A piece of software to do anything >>standard, like word processing or spreadsheet, but that there's only >>ONE program to do it. What other WP packages are there for neXT >>besides WriteNow? What are the database options? Graphics? >>Animation? >> >Please, look at the Software and Peripherals Catalog from NeXT for the >NeXT computer. You WILL be pleasantly surprised at the software >available Okay, there are two questions when asking about software: 1) Is it available? 2) How good is it? So far, Next users can only say, look in the catalog, it's available. They can't tell you how well it's implemented, the bugs, the features that it has or doesn't have, or how well it compares with competing programs (as there are no competing programs), because they haven't seen most of them yet. A few months from now, we'll start seeing posts in comp.sys.next about why Improv is garbage or how this feature is WordPerfect was conceived in hell, and at that point, one will have a better sense of the software available. -- ***************************************************************************** Kenneth Chang * khcg0492@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Center for Complex Systems Research * or University of Illinois * kc@complex.ccsr.uiuc.edu *****************************************************************************