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From: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Nemacs and NeXT -- Insane pricing of 2.1J OS
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.191740.13121@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 91 19:17:40 GMT
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In article <1991Jun25.142851.24895@m.cs.uiuc.edu> 
yonezawa@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Noritake Yonezawa) writes:
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>If that pricing is true, NeXT and Canon will lose lots of potential customers.
>No Japanese Emacs? No Japanese TeX? Only Japanese front-end?
>Who will pay $2,500 for such an incomplete Japanese OS?

Nemacs, TeX, and Wnn already exists and running on NeXT (probably
people using them are using 1.0 binaries as 2.0/2.1 has a
lot of problems with these in compiling, kernel crashes).
They are free, and you can get them now.

It would be nice if they distribute these with the OS, but
these are not for intended audience of the NeXT machines.
They will probably bundle  them if the distribution media
has space for them (only CD and double-sided OD fits the bill.).


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