Xref: utzoo comp.sys.next:14914 comp.sys.mac.misc:10324 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!boingo.med.jhu.edu!haven!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Desktop publishing Message-ID: <1991Mar29.215715.12571@eng.umd.edu> Date: 29 Mar 91 21:57:15 GMT References: <1991Mar26.213042.8120@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 24 In article fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes: > >Michael> Again, look at the number of programs, the diversity and the >Michael> quality. 100 applications is more than anyone is going to >Michael> buy in one's lifetime. > >Remember when the Mac was all new? The PC freaks were telling us to >stick with PC's because they had all these applications available >while the MacEvangelists told us that "You don't need 127 word >processors, just one good one and that Mac has that". Have we come >full circle? The MacEvangelists who said that were wrong then and the NeXT people who say that are wrong now. (First of all, MacWrite was NOT a good word processer. It was a barebones word processor. Word was the first one with enough power to do even a high school paper (no footnotes in MacWrite...) ) Those who bought the mac were betting on the availability of software in the near future, when it was needed. It turned out to be a good bet for many. I don't think it is going to be such a good bet for NeXT. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.