Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!oberon!cit-vax!wetter From: wetter@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Pierce T. Wetter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting) Message-ID: <8359@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 19 Oct 88 05:49:17 GMT References: <9607@haddock.ima.isc.com> Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 8 Personally, my opinion is that it would be nice to have both a Mac II and a NeXT box. On the II I run canned software like the Douglas schematic and PCB layout program I have, and full write. On the NeXT box I: write my own stuff in C++ (yay!), use Mathematica, use WriteNow, use UNIX/MACH stuff. This gives me the best of both worlds. Pierce