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
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Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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	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 :-)
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Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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