rburns%master@Sun.COM (Randy Burns) (10/18/88)
I was quite impressed by what I read about the NeXT user interface and NeXT Step. I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has actually used the NeXT machine. How does it compare to the Mac, MS Windows and Sun Windowing system? Is NeXT Step really as easy to use as Hypercard? Can the code generated by NeXT Step be ported to computers that do not run NeXT Step? I have also read that IBM intends to port NeXT Step to both the 386 and IBM Risc architectures and that Jobs has no immediate plans to license NeXT Step to vendors other than IBM. Does anyone have any idea how soon the IBM 386 release will be available? I personally was quite disappointed to hear that Jobs has no plans to make NeXT Step generally licensable. The main thing I think the market needs is a portable, *standard*, easy to program environment with hypercard's functionality, not another proprietary product with a limited life cycle. At least this is where I intend to put my dollars and time.
ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) (10/18/88)
Wouldn't life get interesting if NeXT and IBM submitted NeXT Step to the
OSF as a candidate for the OSF Unix windowing system...
...kenahby@com2serv.C2S.MN.ORG (ahby) (10/19/88)
In article <17503@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii) writes: >Wouldn't life get interesting if NeXT and IBM submitted NeXT Step to the >OSF as a candidate for the OSF Unix windowing system... Or even more interesting if they brought it to the IEEE 1003.0 committee as a possible standard user interface for Unix systems. OSF is not a standards organization, but the IEEE (via ANSI) is. -- Shane P. McCarron ATT: +1 612 452-9522 Project Manager UUCP: ahby@c2s.mn.org
tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) (10/20/88)
Quoth ken@gatech.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii) in <17503@gatech.edu>: |Wouldn't life get interesting if NeXT and IBM submitted NeXT Step to the |OSF as a candidate for the OSF Unix windowing system... | Jobs has insisted that he will >not< submit NextStep to OSF. I don't know for sure, but I suspect that IBM's licensing arrangement may preclude IBM from submitting it independently. -- MY CURRENT FAVORITE ADVERTISING LINES: |Tom Betz EAA#48267 "Look what they done to old Duke! |ZCNY, Yonkers, NY 10701-2509 Next year I'm plantin' corn." |UUCP: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP or "It's not >that< crazy! Rosemary..." | ...!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tbetz
paul@unisoft.UUCP (n) (10/21/88)
Talking about "NeXT Step" in October's Unix Review on page 132 there is a full page recruiting ad from DEC looking for X engineers, it is labeled: The next step in large letters. Probably freak chance (and I bet they'll change it asap ...) Paul -- Paul Campbell, UniSoft Corp. 6121 Hollis, Emeryville, Ca ..ucbvax!unisoft!paul Nothing here represents the opinions of UniSoft or its employees (except me) "Gorbachev is returning to the heritage of the great Lenin" - Ronald Reagan 1988 (then the Wasington Post attacked RR [from the right] for being a Leninist)