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From: mh@wlbr.EATON.COM (Mike Hoegeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: amusing use of a Sun at NeXT, Inc.
Message-ID: <24748@wlbr.EATON.COM>
Date: 2 Dec 88 06:12:06 GMT
References: <843@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu> <2872@ima.ima.isc.com> <709STORKEL@RICE>
Reply-To: mh@wlbr.eaton.com.UUCP (Mike Hoegeman)
Organization: Eaton IMSD, Westlake Village, CA
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In article <709STORKEL@RICE> STORKEL@RICE.BITNET (Scott Storkel) writes:
>The gateway machine at next.com IS a Sun. At a demo of the NeXT machine one of
>the guys referred to it as their "virus catcher". He also mentioned that the
>NextStep user interface began life on Suns (the software guys didn't want to
>wait for the hardware guys to get done). Now if NeXT would release a version of
>NextStep for Suns those machines would finally be worth something.

If you want a real man's :-) PostScript environment instead of just
this display-only stuff Check out NeWS from sun.  Supposedly NDE (NeWS
Development Environment) , once it hit's the street, will give NextStep
a run for it's money. I think it's the greatest thing since sliced
bread even without NDE and pretty bug free to boot?. I am extremely
glad that NeXT is taking the PostScript Stance as far as window systems
go though, I never could see the appeal in X windows anywhere. Sure it
pioneered the notion of making the window a network service, but in
most other aspects it's just the same 'ol stuff. NoW, If AlL ThEsE
PeoPLE CoulD JuST KeeP THeiR HanDS OfF ThE CapS Key WhEn they make up
ThEsE NameS I'D DiE A HaPPy MaN....


-mike