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From: BruceH@cup.portal.com (Bruce Robert Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXt Performance/Price
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Date: 10 Apr 89 05:55:20 GMT
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phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes.......
>Yes, Mac-II has more software. But non-DTP publishing software is sparse. Try
>running SAS, S, Fortran, Emacs, etc. Moreover, no alleviation is on the
>horizon. The Mac is just TOO difficult to program. At least, I see normal
>people being able to program NeXt.
Once again, this is not true...  The ammount of software available on the Mac is
pretty impressive if you go beyond just what "Mac Looser" lists as it's top 10
every month.  Does anyone out there on the mac see any need for SAS or EMACS???
NO WAY!  because the mac IS NOT A WORKSTATION!!! Remember that.... The NeXT may
not want to be a workstation.  It may want to be more of a PC... and Every one
would agree that the MPW editor or QUED is maybe not as powerful as EMACS, but
the people who use it get a lot more done [ie... it's easy to use...]

BruceH@cup.portal.com
"May the cube be with you"