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From: izumi@fugitive.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
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Subject: Re: NeXT Step. 2.0 Japanese?
Keywords: NeXTstep 2.0 Japanese release
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Date: 20 Feb 91 03:32:03 GMT
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In article <1991Feb20.014726.12791@m.cs.uiuc.edu> 
  yonezawa@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Noritake Yonezawa) writes:
>dmoon@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Doksu Moon) writes:
>
>>Does anyone knows about the Japanese release of NeXTstep. 2.0?  I have heard
>In Japan, Canon will release NeXTstep 2.0-J in May.
>It will be delivered with OD. For more detailed information, contact:
>
>	NeXT Marketing div. of Canon, Japan	phone: +81-44-549-5295

I just called up that number, but not much specific information
could be made available to me at this point.  I asked if the
price in Yen for the 2.0-J upgrade on OD is available, and the marketing
person said no.

Whether 2.0-J can be available from NeXT in the US is not known yet,
apparently.  He didn't think there would be any problem for
ordering 2.0-J from Canon directly.  Of course, it would be a lot
easier for us to be able to get 2.0-J from NeXT directly, so
I made a clear request that Canon and NeXT set up some way
of doing this.  (My bank charges $25 for international wire
transfer of funds, and a receiving Japanese bank charges
1,500 yen per transfer.) 
I urge you to make similar requests to NeXT and/or Canon.

There are a lot of questions like, how to handle "upgrade" from
2.0 to 2.0-J.  It would be nice and reasonable to give some
break to those who already have 2.0 OS license.

In any case, he said he would fax the details to me when
they become available.  I will let you know if/when he does.

That it will be available soon at all is great news though.
All of a sudden, NeXT Laser printer becomes a great
Kanji PostScript printer.  I bet the combination of
NeXTstation ($3200 academic)+ NeXT Laser ($1200? academic)
+ 2.0-J would beat LaserWriter NTX-J easily in both performance
and price.


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