rock@lighthouse.com (Roger Rock Rosner) (01/24/90)
Well, just got back from the UniForum show. NeXT had no booth, but a few companies were there with cubes: - Adobe: showing their type library (many, many fonts), - Frame: showing Framemaker of course, - Informix: showing a beta of WingZ (incredibly slow), - Mindcraft: showing a C portability verifier (extended lint). The most interesting thing from my perspective was the IBM booth (more like a coliseum) where they had a PS/2 Model 80 running AIX with, you guessed it, NextStep on top. So I guess it's pretty real. There was not much demo software, just IB, BreakApp, etc. The machine was vastly under-powered, but things were stable. Needless to say, the IBM droid divulged no dates but admitted IBM would definitely release NextStep (probably a few months after the machine introduction). The lack of a major NeXT presence was an inexcusable omission. Every other major hardware maker was there: HP, DEC, IBM, Sun, Sony, and on and on. Roger Rosner Lighthouse Design, Ltd. NeXT Mail: rock@lighthouse.com or ...!uunet!lighthouse!rock