Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!hydra!cc.helsinki.fi!jalkio From: jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: The Three Religions of NeXT X Message-ID: <1991Jan16.163747.4557@cc.helsinki.fi> Date: 16 Jan 91 16:37:47 GMT References: <14378@milton.u.washington.edu> <6579@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Organization: University of Helsinki Lines: 37 In article <6579@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell) writes: > In article greg@travis.cica.indiana.edu (Gregory TRAVIS) writes: >>mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes: >> >>Please name a few X applications, at least 5, that the average gal with >>a NeXT on her desk will want to buy and use. Or just name some X applications >>for starters. > > SAS > FrameMaker Why would a NeXT-owner want to buy the X-version of FrameMaker? > Island Graphics Write, Paint and Draw Hmm. He could buy Adobe Illustrator, for example. > eXclaim (spreadsheet) Well, how about Lotus Improv, etc... ? > Saber-C Is this a C compiler? If so, why on earth would a NeXT owner need another C compiler - he already has Objective C/C++/C with all the niceties! I just wrote this to show that the main purpose for X Windows on a NeXT would not be to offer the BASIC programs. If you want something very special, that has been done on X Windows but not on NeXTstep, then there is a place for X. (Or if you happen to have much X applications already.) But I guess that there will soon be many special and important products for NeXTstep - and some of them might not be available for X Windows. Jouni