Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!oz.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: What's coming? Message-ID:Date: 10 Aug 89 03:01:57 GMT References: <65100001@tippy> <245300016@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <6528@rpi.edu> <388@wet.UUCP> <2396@zygot.UUCP> Reply-To: J Greely Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 42 In article <2396@zygot.UUCP> bruceh@zygot.UUCP (Bruce Henderson) writes: >In article <388@wet.UUCP>, epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) writes: >>I have very little sympathy. ... (Do you have access to a NeXT? How >>many of your potential customers are going to have a NeXT workstation >>and \nothing/ else? Do you even know what a "workstation" is?) >Look here! keep your workstation snobbery in your little toilet >training academia! The previous poster havd a very valid point. >As far as your grasp of the porpose or the intended market of the >machine, it's obvious you haven't got a clue. Now that everyone is officially clueless, let's all calm down, take a deep breath, and think nice thoughts about people who come from a different environment. The NeXT, thanks to its odd heritage, has *intelligent* people from completely different worlds looking at it, some of whom are workstation-oriented, and some who live the PC life. Both sides have good arguments. Distribution of software for NeXTs has to be flexible, able to handle both the networked and the non. Relax, throw out ideas, take a real look at the other side's views. Personally, I wonder a great deal about how marketing of NeXT software will be handled. Networks are far from universal, and relying on the presence of foreign machines with other media types simply begs the question ("I'd like a copy of Lotus Fribble, and can you ship it on 1/4-inch cartridge tape, HP format?"). I don't know how to solve the problem for every NeXT user, so I promise not to insult someone else's ideas. > As far as any knowlege about the machine, it's workings or it's >methods, you are also clue-less [I checked the list of people who have >attended developer ED.] So keep your uniformed opinions to yourself! Now *this* I take exception to. Presence at developer's camp is not the sole (or even primary) criterion for experience with the NeXT. There are quite a few people who have not attended any of the camps, myself included, who are nonetheless quite capable of holding informed opinions. I've been using and administering the things since mid- December. I know what I'm doing, thankyouverymuch. (not that I don't screw up occasionally...) -=- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)