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From: yonezawa@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Noritake Yonezawa)
Subject: Re: Nemacs and NeXT -- Insane pricing of 2.1J OS
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.015554.12864@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
References: <2422@solvalou.mech.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1991Jun25.084107.15985@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Jun25.142851.24895@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Jun25.191740.13121@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 01:55:54 GMT

izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes:

>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.

I know, I know. But, why do we have to use such unstable programs
on _$2,500_ OS? _$2,500_ OS should contain not only Japanese fonts
but also usable Japanese applications, at least a Japanese word processor.
I don't think `edit' with Japanese is a Japanese application.

The machine is expensive. The OS is incredibly expensive.
The Japanese environment is poor. NeXT never beat other Unix boxes in Japan.

--
Noritake Yonezawa [yonezawa@cs.uiuc.edu]
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign