Fischer.pa@XEROX.ARPA (10/20/85)
Good point! However, I like the object-orientation of the STAR
Desktop and
wish that SOMEONE would make it available in a consumer-affordable
form,
since Xerox apparently refuses to do so.
How about $5000 plus a tad more for the software? Xerox Office Systems
announced a new 6085 machine a short while ago (month or two). Its a
complete redesign of the (previous expensive) hardware that was needed
to run Star. There's also a new incarnation of the Star software called
"Viewpoint" (which is even better I'm told, but I never used Star and
thus don't have an opinion).
It implements (now) more or less what the Mac office promised. I've
seen and used it a few times. The hardware is winning too (but I'm
biased). It has a microprogrammable CPU, NOT an Intel series chip,
although a slave 80186 acts as an IO processor.
I can dig up and mail an address for more information to anyone who's
interested.
(ron)
PS- Although I DO work for Xerox (but in a different division) these
opinions are honestly my own and hopefully won't be construed as some
kind of commercial nonsense. I personally like getting information
about products directly from the people who worked on them (but I did
not work on the 6085 or Viewpoint).