jashley@loanshark.cs.indiana.edu (J. Michael Ashley) (03/05/91)
One of the articles in NeXTWorld brought up the point that a multitasking environment like Unix favors small, specialized applications that the user can piece together exactly how he or she wants them. That seems like a pretty reasonable opinion. My question is, does NeXT stress this at the Developer's Conference? And while I'm thinking about it, what exactly *is* the offical philosophy? Mike jashley@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
news@NeXT.COM (news) (03/05/91)
In article <1991Mar4.111729.16468@news.cs.indiana.edu> jashley@loanshark.cs.indiana.edu (J. Michael Ashley) writes: > > One of the articles in NeXTWorld brought up the point that a multitasking > environment like Unix favors small, specialized applications that the > user can piece together exactly how he or she wants them. That seems > like a pretty reasonable opinion. > > Does NeXT stress this at the Developer's Conference? Yes. In a multitasking environment that also allows applications work in harmony with each other, users like to have many applications running at the same time. We encourage developers to remember that theirs will not be the only application running. We've also seen many developers write great applications that do a few things well and leave other jobs to other applications. Chris MacAskill cmac@next.com