Xref: utzoo comp.sys.next:1896 comp.windows.news:1272 comp.lang.postscript:1943 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!apple!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!hardees.rutgers.edu!patterso From: patterso@hardees.rutgers.edu (Ross Patterson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.windows.news,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: NextStap and NeWS what's this difference other than DP Keywords: NextStep,NeWS,Postscript Message-ID: Date: 17 Apr 89 01:35:23 GMT References: <1041@nixctc.DE> Organization: Rutgers Univ., CCIS Lines: 23 > I just scan thru the NeXt news >group and expected a bit more postscript programs being exchanged >as in the comp.windows.news news-group. Perhaps NeXT has a slight problem getting their machines out into the field? Several people here at Rutgers have been trying for some time to purchase one, unsuccessfully. These folks are the ones that end-users call with questions like "I just got $25,000 in my grant for a computer, what should I get? I hear these Sun's are neat, and I've been reading all about those NeXT's in the ." It seems the local marketroids are too busy giving mass demonstrations ("... and here, if you could see the screen from the back of the lecture hall, you'd see this neat little icon we drew ..."), and can't find time to send price lists to purchasing agents. Perhaps now that BusinessLand is selling them (albeit at a higher price) they'll start selling a few. But not likely very many here. Too bad for Jobs, who said he was counting on the traditional University-developed software pool to make his machines worthwhile. Ross Patterson Rutgers University Center for Computer and Information Services