Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!accuvax.nwu.edu!mccoy From: mccoy@accuvax.nwu.edu (Jim McCoy ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Has 0.9 shipped? Message-ID: <647@accuvax.nwu.edu.NWU.EDU> Date: 27 Apr 89 04:44:00 GMT References: <278@nueces.UUCP> Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu.NWU.EDU Reply-To: mccoy@accuvax.nwu.edu (Jim McCoy ) Organization: Northwestern Univ. Evanston, Il. Lines: 35 In article <278@nueces.UUCP> becca@nueces.UUCP (Becca Robertson) writes: >Does anyone out there have 0.9 yet? While i'm sure that people will have received it by the time this message propagates, I have seen 0.9 but not received it. We had a campus Computer Faire and the NeXT people had .9 running and I had a chance to play around with it for a while. -It is still not performanced tuned; the graphics are still SLOW. -Mathmatica is REALLY SLOW (compared to a Mac IIx) but it works. -There are a few new demo applications (an object oriented drawing program, etc.) and the preferences application. -I took a look at digital librarian for a few seconds, and noticed that a few of the uppermost icons (i.e. NeXT Ref Manuals, Websters, etc.) were empty--does this mean we will be able to create documents for teh librarian (somehow i doubt it) -Didn't get a chance to check out CL or much else at the time It looks like it will be an improvement and bug-fix (like that bug called WriteNow :-) but there is nothing really earth-shaking about it. jim -- ------------------------------< Jim McCoy >------------------------------------ mccoy@accuvax.nwu.edu | "...far too many notes for my taste" .oddjob!nucsrl!blekko!holmes!mccoy | -Phantom of the Opera -------------------------(#include )-----------------------------