eric@brewmaster.bnr.ca (Eric Brunelle) (12/13/90)
I am new to the Next world and unable to find a Next commercial contact
here in Montreal, so I would like to ask this group a few basic questions.
Please respond/flame by email to avoid annoying the group.
I have seen the new Nexts at OOPSLA and they interested me enough that
I'm preparing a proposal to investigate the Nexts for our environment.
We have a large installed base of Macs and Suns. How would the Nexts
fit into that environment? Namely:
0. Is there a Canadian 800 number where I could ask the Next 4 questions?
1. Can the Next print to a Laserwriter on an Appletalk-Ethernet gatewayed net?
2. Can the Next feed from a Sun NFS server on Ethernet?
3. How tough is it to port from Next to Sun (using X, not NextStep of course)?
(I suppose this means "What are the main differences between the 2 Unixes?")
4. What applications would you see as replacing the following Mac applications:
Mac Next
--- ----
Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator
Excel Improv
MacDraw ?
Kaleidagraph ?
Word ?
PageMaker ?
PowerPoint ?
On each of the 4 questions, please feel free to comment on personal
experiences.
Thankyou for your time.
DISCLAIMER: This is strictly a personal initiative, and has nothing to do
yet with BNR.
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Eric Brunelle | "C'est la nuit qu'il est beau
Bell-Northern Research | de croire a la lumiere"
eric%bnrmtl@iro.umontreal.c | -- Rostand, Chantecler
----------------------------------------------------------------------------majka@cs.ubc.ca (Marc Majka) (12/14/90)
In article <1990Dec13.030626.6208@scrumpy@.bnr.ca> eric@bnrmtl.bnr.ca writes: >0. Is there a Canadian 800 number where I could ask the Next 4 questions? 800-848-next == 800-848-6398 >1. Can the Next print to a Laserwriter on an Appletalk-Ethernet gatewayed net? Yes. There is one just down the hall from my office which I sometimes use. >2. Can the Next feed from a Sun NFS server on Ethernet? Yes. My cube is both an NFS client and server. >3. How tough is it to port from Next to Sun (using X, not NextStep of course)? > (I suppose this means "What are the main differences between the 2 Unixes?") I'm not sure what you mean. Are you trying to port "X" applications to NeXT, or vanilla unix sources? "X" is not shipped by NeXT, although a 3rd party "xnext" is available. I've played with an X11R3 version and found it quite buggy. I haven't seen the X11R4 version yet, but rumors have it that it is much better. If you really mean "what is UNIX like?", then you will find it very similar to any BSD unix. I have ported lots of stuff from SunOS to NeXT without even thinking about it. >4. What applications would you see as replacing the following Mac applications: Good question. I am not a MAC user, so I will leave this to someone else. --- Marc Majka System Manager UBC Computer Science
daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Walter C. Daugherity) (12/16/90)
In article <1990Dec13.030626.6208@scrumpy@.bnr.ca> eric writes: | |0. Is there a Canadian 800 number where I could ask the Next 4 questions? (800)848-NeXT should also work from Canada. .. |2. Can the Next feed from a Sun NFS server on Ethernet? Yes, we're doing it. .. |4. What applications would you see as replacing the following Mac applications: | | Mac Next | --- ---- | | Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator | Excel Improv | MacDraw ? | Kaleidagraph ? | Word WriteNow works fine, Word Perfect will be | on the NeXT soon | PageMaker Framemaker? | PowerPoint ? | -- Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu Texas A & M University uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher College Station, TX 77843-3112 BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS ---Not an official document of Texas A&M--- -- Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu Texas A & M University uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher College Station, TX 77843-3112 BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS ---Not an official document of Texas A&M---