Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!autodesk!glang From: glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: The Three Religions of NeXT X Message-ID: <2099@autodesk.COM> Date: 17 Jan 91 05:28:46 GMT References: <1991Jan15.135156.5950@uncecs.edu> <6774@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito CA, USA Lines: 58 In-reply-to: kim@mathcs.emory.edu's message of 15 Jan 91 16:23:24 GMT > >WingZ Runs on NeXT >WordPerfect 5.0 Uses X to emulate it's character-oriented DOS counterpart. This is the next step? >SAS (statistics and presentation graphics, a social sciences standard) That's nice. >Island Graphics: Write, Draw, & Paint Island who? >DUX Quintet: Write, spreadsheet, personal database, graph, communicate That's nice. >AutoGraph presentation graphics That's nice. >Framemaker 2.1 (DP) Runs in a fashion consistent with its environment on the Mac and NeXT but not under OpenWindows and costs 3x as much for the priveldge of confusing your fingers. >Interleaf TPS 4.0 (DP) The industry standards are Pagemaker, Quark Express, Ventura Publisher, and Framemaker. Interleaf lost their short 2 years ago when they wouldn't design a product that knows what environment it's in. The DTP market is far more interesed in Quark Express which is being ported to the NeXT and Framemaker than this dinosaur. >DBASE IV (allright this one might be RSN) Since I designed a lot of this program, it breaks my heart to say that it will be just as dated (1986) as its DOS counterpart is because like 1-2-3 for the Sun, it looks and acts identically to its DOS counter part. The only thing it will do with XView is to draw into a TTY window object as if it were an 80-24 screen. I hope this never sees the light of day on the cube. Come on, the NeXT applications are so beautifuL...where's your sense of artistry? - G -- Gary T. Lang (415)332-2344 x2702 Autodesk, Inc. Sausalito, CA. MCI: 370-0730