Xref: utzoo comp.sys.next:14981 comp.sys.mac.misc:10371 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!think.com!mintaka!ai-lab!geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu!petrilli From: petrilli@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris Petrilli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Desktop publishing Message-ID: <14483@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: 31 Mar 91 00:20:15 GMT References: <1991Mar29.215715.12571@eng.umd.edu> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Distribution: na Organization: Free Software Foundation Lines: 35 Matthew T. Russotto writes: >>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. It seems to me that you sound like a MacEvangelist... I have used the NeXT extensively, and most of the basic software is already there, much of it better than that available on other platforms (Improv for exaple, Touch-Type as another). I think betting on NeXT is actually safer than betting on Apple (simply because of back-lash that is slowly coming about from their "look and feel" attitude, and the fact that they are not even close to reasonably comptetitive in price). I have used a Mac IIfx (w/ 8.24 card) and a NeXTstation, and you can have the Mac, I won't touch it. (See the Org line if you wondering why). Chris -- + Chris Petrilli | Internet: petrilli@gnu.ai.mit.edu + Insert silly disclaimer drivel here.