Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!teri.bio.uci.edu!mwu From: mwu@teri.bio.uci.edu (Matt Wu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: X11 for the NeXTstation Message-ID: <278A1EA5.28595@orion.oac.uci.edu> Date: 8 Jan 91 19:33:57 GMT References: <1991Jan3.135628.78@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu> <49737@sequent.UUCP> <50361@cornell.UUCP> <1875@autodesk.COM> Reply-To: Matt Wu Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: teri.bio.uci.edu In article <1875@autodesk.COM> glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang) writes: >But NeXT is not a workstation manufacturer. One look at >NeXTStep will tell you that. No, NeXT is a personal computer >manufacturer. This means that standards like XWindows from >the worlstation world are as inapplicable as standards for >mainframe data access are. I have to disagree. Even though NeXTStep is a nice user interface, the fact that people need to ask the net how to install modems indicates to me that it is _not_ a personal computer. And then there are responses like laughing at a first-time user's problems from experienced NeXT users. People who don't know anything about Unix are going to flail when they try to do many things that should not be difficult with personal computers. Like try hooking up an old SCSI-1 drive, installing memory or recovering from a crash. Your average Macintosh first-time user would probably freak out. Heck, even more experienced computer users might have some problems. If NeXT wants to sell computers, it can't try to walk the line between personal computers and workstations; it should either make the computers easier to use or provide power users with the tools they want. Actually, doing both wouldn't be that bad an idea, either. Matt Wu mwu@teri.bio.uci.edu my opinions represent just my opinions