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From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: NeXT?
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.074923.24919@utstat.uucp>
Reply-To: philip@.utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Organization: U of Toronto Statistics
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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 07:49:23 GMT

As time passes, and prices of micros keep dropping, and OS/2 ver2.0
gets nearer could someone please give me a reason to recommend NeXT?
I have an 040 cube which I truly like, but my imperfect crystal ball
seems to tell me that NeXT may have missed the boat. 

I do hope my rather pessimistic views do not materialise, but 486's
keep getting cheaper, NeXT is not making a dent in the Unix world,
and NeXTStep is just not being adopted by anyone. Where are the 
applications? At this point, we seem to have a very, very nice Amiga.
It was the rage when it came out, but it remains a niche product.

Where is S+ for the NeXT, a WYSIWYG technical word processor for the
NeXT, midi software, authoring software,etc...What about NAG or IMSL?
Are we condemned to Lotus Improv, Write Now, vt100 terminals, etc...?
I guess I'm asking whether or not the NeXT is worth the trouble.

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.utoronto.ca
[my opinions,...]