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From: eric@hector.UUCP (Eric Lavitsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A Few Good Rumors...
Message-ID: <10098@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 19 Feb 88 21:14:26 GMT
References: <1406@csib.csi.UUCP> <1575@uhccux.UUCP> <330@esquire.UUCP> <1686@ssc-vax.UUCP>
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Keywords: A/UX Unix FullWriter

In article <1686@ssc-vax.UUCP> benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP writes:
>In article <330@esquire.UUCP>, sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
>> That's exactly it.  Remember, your Mac II running A/UX can also run real live
>> useful applications as well (not that Unix isn't useful, but...).  The Apollo,
>> on the other hand, runs what in the way of software?  I don't know, but it
>> sure ain't as good as Illustrator, PageMaker, etc., etc.  And please, no
>> flames from the TeX/troff junkies...  :-)
>Both Apollo and Sun run desktop publishing packages that make PageMaker and
>Illustrator look positively primitive, ever heard of FrameMaker and Interleaf?
>Ever see these on a 1600x1280 screen?  If you live at all in a technical
>world - which clearly it doesn't sound like you do - Apollos and Suns run
>*lots* of engineering, CAD/CAM, medical applications.  Have you ever seen
>NeWS (ever seen a circular window?).  Get serious the Mac II has a *long*
>way to go before ever being considered an "engineering workstation" let
>alone a workstation.

Er, you may be right, but your basis isn't completely correct...

Interleaf runs on a Mac II - I saw it at DEXPO yesterday.
A Mac II (probably a vanilla Mac as well) can have circular windows - I
also saw it at DEXPO yesterday (yea, a round clock on the Mac Desktop - neat!).

But I'm an Amiga fan, so what the hell - I'd sorely like to have a 19 inch
color hi-res monitor (my heart lusts for one), but for now I'll settle with
the 13 inch 1Kx800 monitor that CBM is beta testing now...

>NeWS on the Sun is a networkable window system that *understands*
>postscript.  You can preview postscript graphics, etc.  

No reason why it couldn't be ported to run under A/UX ...

>*I'm sorry, I suddenly am beginning to understand...go back to your
>Missile Attack game on your Mac* :)

It's not nice to talk down to people on the net ;-)

Eric

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