Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!usc!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!aplcomm!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!cs.ed.ac.uk!cs.edinburgh.ac.uk!nick From: nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: System 7.0 vs. NeXT Step Message-ID: <4954@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 23 Jan 91 13:39:01 GMT References: Sender: nnews@cs.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk Distribution: comp Organization: Wavetables 'R' Us Lines: 20 In article , melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > > > This is a question that I have been asking myself for quite some > time(but I've been afraid to bring up). We have been waiting for > System 7.0 for a couple years, but what will it offer us that NeXTSTep > 2.0 doesn't already have? Well, I suppose one point is that it will run on a Macintosh. (together with the other software I need which doesn't run on the NeXT, and besides, NeXT's are unaffordable outside the US, and besides, the nearest dealer is in London, and besides, ...) -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ "Theres menners f' yer! Te-oo banches o voylets trod into the mad."