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From: eric@brewmaster.bnr.ca (Eric Brunelle)
Subject: Nexts, Macs & Suns?
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.030626.6208@scrumpy@.bnr.ca>
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Reply-To: eric@bnrmtl.bnr.ca
Organization: Recherches Bell Northern Montreal, Quebec.
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 90 03:06:26 GMT

I am new to the Next world and unable to find a Next commercial contact
here in Montreal, so I would like to ask this group a few basic questions.
Please respond/flame by email to avoid annoying the group.

I have seen the new Nexts at OOPSLA and they interested me enough that
I'm preparing a proposal to investigate the Nexts for our environment.
We have a large installed base of Macs and Suns.  How would the Nexts
fit into that environment?  Namely:

0. Is there a Canadian 800 number where I could ask the Next 4 questions?
1. Can the Next print to a Laserwriter on an Appletalk-Ethernet gatewayed net?
2. Can the Next feed from a Sun NFS server on Ethernet?
3. How tough is it to port from Next to Sun (using X, not NextStep of course)?
   (I suppose this means "What are the main differences between the 2 Unixes?")
4. What applications would you see as replacing the following Mac applications:

     Mac                             Next
     ---                             ----

     Adobe Illustrator               Adobe Illustrator
     Excel                           Improv
     MacDraw                         ?
     Kaleidagraph                    ?
     Word                            ?
     PageMaker                       ?
     PowerPoint                      ?

On each of the 4 questions, please feel free to comment on personal
experiences.

Thankyou for your time.


DISCLAIMER: This is strictly a personal initiative, and has nothing to do
            yet with BNR.

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  Eric Brunelle                     |     "C'est la nuit qu'il est beau
  Bell-Northern Research            |      de croire a la lumiere"
  eric%bnrmtl@iro.umontreal.c       |         -- Rostand, Chantecler
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