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From: rburns%master@Sun.COM (Randy Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Questions about NeXT Step
Message-ID: <73272@sun.uucp>
Date: 17 Oct 88 22:41:06 GMT
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I was quite impressed by what I read about the NeXT user interface 
and NeXT Step. I   would be interested in hearing from anyone 
who has actually used the NeXT machine. How does it compare
to the Mac, MS Windows and Sun Windowing system? Is NeXT Step 
really as easy to use as Hypercard?  Can the code generated by NeXT 
Step be ported to computers that do not run NeXT Step?

I have also read that IBM intends to port NeXT Step to both
the 386 and IBM Risc architectures and that Jobs has no immediate plans
to license NeXT Step to vendors other than IBM. Does anyone have any idea
how soon the IBM 386 release will be available?  I personally was quite 
disappointed to hear that Jobs has no plans to make NeXT Step generally 
licensable. The main thing I think the market needs is a portable,
*standard*, easy to program environment with hypercard's functionality,
not another proprietary product with a limited life cycle. At least this
is where I intend to put my dollars and time.