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Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 14 Nov 90 06:06:18 GMT
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ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>It [the Mac], too, had a long list of companies (200, as I recall) that
>were "writing software" for it.  The software did eventually materialize
>but not until a couple of years later.

This is where the NeXT has a huge advantage over the original Mac.  The
original Macs were a b***h for programmers.  The NeXT is a dream to 
develop software on.   There is already real stuff out there for the NeXT,
including a shrink-wrap business data management program from the company 
I work for.  

Here is a list of software that already comes free with the NeXT:
   Edit
   Digital Librarian
   NeXTmail (multimedia mail)
   Preview (PostScript previewer)
   Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary
   Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
   WriteNow
   DataViz/Bridge
   vt100 Terminal emulator (with Mac-like cut/paste features)
   Lotus's Improv (until Dec. 31.  This is the only free stuff not yet
                   actually on the market)
   DateBook, GNUChess with graphical front-end, Billards, a flight simulator,
   and other goodies

The following is the list of software added to the above if you get a 340MB
hard drive (even if you only get the 105MB version, you retain the right
to obtain the following for free from anyone who has it.  You can also get
it from NeXT for the cost of the floppies and copying.)
   Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
   Complete works of Shakespeare
   TeX
   Mathematica (for educational buyers)
   Interface Builder
   Objective-C/C++ compiler
   56001 DSP Tools
   GNU Emacs
   GNU Debugger
   BUG-56 Debugger (for the DSP)
   Malloc Debugger
   AppInspector
   PostScript Tools
   AppKit
   Music Kit
   Sound Kit
   The NeXT documentation on-line

Here is a list of just some of the third-party software ALREADY shipping:
   Calendoscope
   PaperSight (document management)
   Tactician Plus (spreadsheet)
   Who's Calling? 1.0 (info management)
   Wingz 1.1
   Adobe Plus Pack
   ClickArt
   Diagram!
   The Font Company Type Library
   FrameMaker 2.0
   TextArt 1.0
   TopDraw 1.0
   TouchType
   AFS 3.0
   Communicae
   Gatorbox, GatorMail, GatorShare
   MacLinkPlus/PC
   3270 Vision
   WorldTalk/400
   INGRES
   Sybase
   MundoCart/Optical
   Objective DB Toolkit
   DAN
   Spring
   Taylor
   Math 2++
   The Library
   MediaStation 1.2
   Virginia Tech InfoStation 1.0
   MUMPS version 3.1
   Fortran 77, ACUCOBOL-85, Allegro Common Lisp
And I still have about a fifth of the product catalog left to go!
There are also many other software products listed in the catalog which
are not available today, but with delivery dates before the end of this
year or early into next year.