Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!ucla-cs!ucla-ma!pico!barry From: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Info kindof peripheral to RISC rumors Message-ID: <1991Mar10.023746.463@math.ucla.edu> Date: 10 Mar 91 02:37:46 GMT References: <18424@cs.utexas.edu> <30907@usc> Sender: news@math.ucla.edu Organization: UCLA Dept. of Math, UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research Lines: 27 In article <30907@usc> ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes: > >Seriously: SunOS now comes with ~ 2.5k applications. Life would >be easier for NeXT if they do SPARC and offer seamless of Sun >applications. >one needs to pay the bills. Right, which is why we don't need Sparc Apps for NeXT. I imagine you know the price of Sparc apps---they average around $1000. One reason I scrapped my sparc is that I couldn't afford to get decent apps for it (we paid $1000 for mathematica; on the neXT, its free!) (Not to mention that NeXT mathematica is much, much nicer than Sun's). The migration was easy for me, since I never could afford many Sparc apps anyway. I say: lets preserve the purity of NeXT's software vision. We need more Apps like Improv, not Sun stuff (especially at the cost of switching to a Sparc CPU). If you really don't want to part with those fine Sparc apps, keep your Sparc. -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)