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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
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In article <1991Apr4.004937.10202@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

	   I will grant you spreadsheets (that is if Improv is
   finally shipping), but the Amiga has very good DTP as well, and
   I've heard enormous complaints about the Mac Framemaker. As to
   the 040, you and I both know it'll be out for Amigas and Macs
   RSN.

Yes, Improv is shipping.  We have it here.  What don't Mac users like
about FrameMaker?  Too slow?  Tell them to buy a NeXT and run it on
there.

   >and it's a boon to productivity.  You can run X and an IBM PC in a
   >window for compatibility.

	   Gee, you can do that on an Amiga as well! What a
   coincidence.

You can't run X in a window.  Reboot that sucker.  Seriously, I do
think it is important to be able to support the environments
simultanously.

	   You are right. 1.3 doesn't look so hot. 2.0 does. Under
   2.0 you can tell it to make the screen any size up to 32Kx32K,
   depending on available chip ram, and your window can be on-screen
   and off screen into that extra space.

And 2.0 will be out soon for other computers besides the A3000?
System 7.0 is comping out on May 13, and it looks slick.
Does 2.0 support Adobe outline fonts?

	   There is a lot of great software in the Amiga markets as
   well. Advantage is a good spreadsheet program. We now have
   SuperBase 4 which is a successful IBM world product, as well as
   dbMAN V which is a dBASE III+ compat. program with extensions.
   How does the NeXT software stack up? There is Improv. What else?

FrameMaker, Create, TopDraw, Adobe Illustrator(May), Wingz, Who's
Calling, Diagram, Word Perfect, WriteNow(free), Text Art, and Quark
XPress(announce for 91) are some of the important pieces of NeXT
software that I can think of.  I guess the big ones are Adobe,
FrameMaker, WP, Lotus, and Quark.  These are important because Mac and
IBM users can use the same software(some exist for only 1 computer) on
the NeXT too.

-Mike