ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) (03/10/91)
I just saw an announcement that Tandon has decided to do SPARC
clones. The list of PC-related companies who've decided to do
SPARC which I know of is now : CompuAdd, DTK, Tandon.
Seriously: SunOS now comes with ~ 2.5k applications. Life would
be easier for NeXT if they do SPARC and offer seamless of Sun
applications. That way, the end user gets to use the pretty
frontend with NeXT-native applications and not be limited by the
lack of software.
To many professionals, there are certain applications which
make-or-break a machine. For me, e.g., a decent stat package is
a total necessity (SAS doesn't qualify). I really love the NeXT
with the CS part of my mind, but one needs to pay the bills.
Running SPARC-Stata would make my migration to NeXT a lot easier.
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_______________________________________________________________________________philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) (03/10/91)
In article <30907@usc> ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes: [material regarding Sparc clones and the large number of Sun applications] >To many professionals, there are certain applications which >make-or-break a machine. For me, e.g., a decent stat package is >a total necessity (SAS doesn't qualify). [Comment re the need to pay the bills...] >Running SPARC-Stata would make my migration to NeXT a lot easier. Well if you are looking for a serious research oriented statistical package you couldn't do better than to use S. I'm sitting here at my cube running New S on the 040. It's pretty hard to beat. Philip McDunnough philip@utstat.toronto.edu
barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (03/10/91)
In article <30907@usc> ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes: > >Seriously: SunOS now comes with ~ 2.5k applications. Life would >be easier for NeXT if they do SPARC and offer seamless of Sun >applications. >one needs to pay the bills. Right, which is why we don't need Sparc Apps for NeXT. I imagine you know the price of Sparc apps---they average around $1000. One reason I scrapped my sparc is that I couldn't afford to get decent apps for it (we paid $1000 for mathematica; on the neXT, its free!) (Not to mention that NeXT mathematica is much, much nicer than Sun's). The migration was easy for me, since I never could afford many Sparc apps anyway. I say: lets preserve the purity of NeXT's software vision. We need more Apps like Improv, not Sun stuff (especially at the cost of switching to a Sparc CPU). If you really don't want to part with those fine Sparc apps, keep your Sparc. -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)