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From: grahamr@prism.cs.orst.edu (Robert Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Foriegn markets and Languages
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Date: 8 May 89 21:24:25 GMT
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Reply-To: grahamr@prism.cs.orst.edu (Robert Graham)
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I think that NeXT is a prime example why we have such a large trade
imbalance. As far as I can tell, they are not concentrating on the
foriegn market at all, which is a big mistake. Universities in
Europe are funded primarily by the government (no tuition), and have
(in comparison to american universitie) gobs of liquid cash. The
school I went to (University of Stuttgart), had Sun 3 workstations
on most CS professors desks, and a Cray 2 squirrelled away somewhere
on campus (there is an old rivalry between Baden-Wuertemburg [of which
Stuttgart is the capital] and Bavaria, like who developed German beer,
who invented pretzels, etc. The University Stuttgart just has to have
a bigger computer than the University od Munich). Students can't earn
less than about $7 per hour (there are lots of jobs at that wage), while
my american university's CS department can't afford $4.00/hour for
its student workers. It seems that foreign acadamia would be a much
fertile market than domestic acadamia.

Do umlauts, accents, tildes, etc. work on 0.9? (yes, I know, the disk
is in the mail) I like Webster, but I already know english. I do,
however use other dictionaries quite extensively (German and French
in particularly) and I have flipped enough pages to want them online.
Is NeXT (or a third party) going to have anything like that available
soon at a reasonable price? How about foriegn language fonts? (i.e.
Japanese hirigana, katakana, and kanji; Russian)

Maybe we have a $150 trade deficit because countries like Japan and
Germany (which now have stronger economies than us) think first "can we
sell it in america?" and the US thinks first "can we sell it
in america?" :)

Rob.
grahamr@ccmail.ucs.orst.edu
grahamr@prism.cs.orst.edu