Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!remus.rutgers.edu!declan From: declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: development suggestions for the NeXt Summary: NeXT: The computer the rest of us want to use? Message-ID: Date: 12 Nov 90 04:48:00 GMT References: <1990Nov8.151745.24393@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <4011@network.ucsd.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 28 In article <4011@network.ucsd.edu>, pbiron@weber.ucsd.edu (Paul Biron) writes: [Cogent pro-UNIX argument deleted] > Please, people, do not shune unix, its not the devil incarnate! WE, as people technically inclined enough to read comp.sys.next and follow discussions on here, most likely know that. Personally, one of the major reasons I got a NeXT is because it IS a UNIX system - but comp.sys.next readers (including myself) are far from being a representative sample of the kind of user NeXT is courting. NeXT is targeting Big Business. Big Business people with NeXTs on their desks don't necessarily want to know about UNIX commands - they probably have a support staff fluent in UNIX arcana. But they DO want nice NeXTstep front ends to traditional UNIX commands; to take up the argument advanced earlier, an equivalent of Silverlining might help sell machines, whereas a UNIX book might turn people off... Agreed, there are some UNIX solutions included with the system. But why not promote NeXTstep ones as well? It will not only encourage innovation in interfaces and program design, but stimulate third party software development and show people that there ARE good applications out for the NeXT... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Declan McCullagh / NeXT Campus Consultant \ declan@remus.rutgers.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------