Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!snorkelwacker!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: IBM to offer NeXTStep on AIX Message-ID: <1990Feb8.193641.22352@alphalpha.com> Date: 8 Feb 90 19:36:41 GMT References: <1990Feb6.210929.13426@aqdata.uucp> <22156@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <1990Feb7.050640.19017@nueces.cactus.org> Organization: Alphalpha Software, Inc. Lines: 24 In article <1990Feb7.050640.19017@nueces.cactus.org> chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley) writes: >Has anyone noticed that, excluding the bundled applications, there are >more applications available for the NeXTStep environment than for OS/2 >and Motif put together? I got my info from a "Personal Workstation" >article. They said that there were 18 for NextStep, 16 for OS/2 and 1 >for motif. This, of course, excludes all of the Unix stuff that runs They're either on drugs or have a long lead time. There were more than 18 at Uniforum and (to my suprise) NeXT wasn't there at all. Off hand I remember the XBuild, Builder Xcessory IDTs, plus one IDT from ICO? and a beta version from DEC. There were two desktops (IXI and Looking Glass), a really nice multi-user calendar/scheduling program (Synchronize from CrossWind) and a bunch of other stuff. Motif is by no means perfect, but it exists on more Unix machines than anything else, so by default it's the best thing to write to if you're an application developer. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Alphalpha Software, Inc. | Voice/Fax: 617/646-7703 | Home: 617/641-3805 | | 148 Scituate St. | Smart fax, dial number. | BBS: 617/641-3722 | | Arlington, MA 02174 | Dumb fax, dial number, | | | nazgul@alphalpha.com | wait for ring, press 3. | BBS line is still dead | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+