Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Comments on NeXT. Message-ID: <3520@phri.UUCP> Date: 30 Sep 88 02:15:38 GMT References: <9291@swan.ulowell.edu> <5022@juniper.uucp> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 20 I brought the recent posting about the rumored NeXT specs to an astrophysicist I work with and he got really excited out it, especially after I told him about the bundled copy of Mathamatica. But, as soon as he found out that there was no Fortran compiler, he got real turned off. God, I just know I'm going to get flamed for this (and I can hardly believe that I'm saying it myself) but unless the NeXT has a good Fortran package (i.e. production quality compiler, symbolic debugger of dbxtool or better quality, and complete math function library) it's just not interesting to us except as a cute toy. The rumored specs didn't say anything about floating point support, but I'm assume that this thing comes with a 68881 or 68882 as standard equipment. Oh yeah, rogue would be nice too :-) -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net "The connector is the network"