Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release Message-ID: <1991May3.181723.4895@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 3 May 91 18:17:23 GMT References: <6o6G#_oz1@cs.psu.edu> <48101@ut-emx.uucp> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 40 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >In article <48101@ut-emx.uucp> greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes: > > >If you think having source is better, then tell Commodore. When they > >release their IB with Amiga DOS 3.0 in 1999, you will have the IB that > >you've always wanted. > > Bzzt. Interface-building software has been available for the Amiga longer > than the 040 nExt has been available. > >That's been 6 months, and Commodore doesn't ship one with the Amiga. >The nExt IB has been shipping free with the computer since 1988(89?). >How long has nExt been in business? They kind of didn't "officially" >release the machines until 89. Oh well, my point was: "bzzt, you're >wrong. You didn't read my original posting very well." > >-Mike You didn't read his posting very well, Mike. He said that interface building software has been available for longer than the nExt, and he is right. Okay, so Power Windows is not shipped with an Amiga. But there are numerous public domain programs that have been available for a long time, which allow people to make window structures, gadgets, menus, and even add menus to the Amiga Workbench. You're just upset because the Amiga can fill so many markets. Not everyone who buys a computer needs an interface builder, so don't make such a big deal about it. Last, there is a nExt demonstration here at Stony Brook in 40 minutes. I will go look at it, and then see how it is for myself. And from all of your posts, I should expect it to be very impressive...we shall see. -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN "If you think that we're here for the money, we could live without it. But the world isn't too good here, and it wasn't always like that." Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.