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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next Wish List
Message-ID: <330@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 24 Nov 90 03:37:14 GMT
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Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
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In article <1031@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>Adobe is showing off Illustrator 3.0 for the Mac for BMUG (local Mac
>user group) tonight.  They showed it for the NeXT TWO MONTHS AGO
>for BaNG (local NeXT user group), at which time they couldn't
>announce a date for Mac availability.

Although I agree with your point in general about NeXT being a good
development platform, this last point is a bit misleading, I think.

Adobe is actually shipping Illustrator 3.0 for the Mac, and they are
not yet shipping the NeXT version, all other things being equal.  They
also were demoing the Mac version at Seybold last month, and I'm sure
before that, as well.

As for "they couldn't announce a date for Mac availability," I am
pretty sure that's because they are different development teams and
different marketing people, and the NeXT team at Adobe simply didn't
want to put words into the mouths of the Mac team in a public forum.
There is a good chance that they knew perfectly well when the Mac
product would ship, and also a good chance that they actually had no
idea :-)

This is all just anecdote, and nothing is implied one way or the other.