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Subject: Re: NeXT application philosophy
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Date: 5 Mar 91 02:56:45 GMT
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In article <1991Mar4.111729.16468@news.cs.indiana.edu>  
jashley@loanshark.cs.indiana.edu (J. Michael Ashley) writes:
> 
> One of the articles in NeXTWorld brought up the point that a multitasking
> environment like Unix favors small, specialized applications that the
> user can piece together exactly how he or she wants them.  That seems
> like a pretty reasonable opinion.
> 
> Does NeXT stress this at the Developer's Conference?

Yes.  In a multitasking environment that also allows applications work in  
harmony with each other, users like to have many applications running at the  
same time.  We encourage developers to remember that theirs will not be the  
only application running.  We've also seen many developers write great  
applications that do a few things well and leave other jobs to other  
applications.

Chris MacAskill
cmac@next.com