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Date: Sun 26-Jul-1989 20:18:05 From: Unknown Subject: The future of NeXT. The NeXT future. The future of NeXT. The NeXT future. The future of the NeXT lise not in "meat and potatoe" programs but in Hyper- media. Why? The NeXT is a powerful 25mhz machine with a large display (multi-windows, multi-processes), and built in ethernet (ie access to the world!). This alone makes it a prime candidate for Hyper systems (Hypertext, Hypergraphics, Hyper- media). OS and Objective-C: Ever worked with HyperCard for the Macintosh? Imagine a HyperCard for the NeXT? It would be suprisingly easy to add a HyperCard to the NeXT. Many of the ob- jects you would need are already defined (Application Kit- windows=backgrounds, views=cards, buttons=buttons). Mach is designed to allow inter-application communications so "meat and potatoes" programs could be linked into the over- all system. Why be limited to an Interface Builder when you can have an Application Builder? What I envision for the NeXT is basically a software revolution. A giant step into the future which Jobs began by introducing window systems in the Macin- tosh. Imagine a machine with the power of the NeXT tied into a global infor- mation network! A Hyper system encompasing the databases of the world. True online documentation, not the parody of old world technology that the "Digital Librarian" gives us. With a HyperNeXT one could bank at home, order by Email, do research by Ethernet, run an international business, all with the ease of point and click. Click, and satellite images appear on your screen (analyze as you please, graph packages could be linked into the Hyper system). Imagine the waves this could create in the sciences, where scientists grudge through mounds of computer generated data by hand! Imagine the future! Jobs, are you aware of the potential of the machine you've created? Or are you going to push uninspiring software like the Digital Librarian, and Interface Builder (a small step yes, but lacking vision)? HyperNeXT is the future... Miscellany- online publications (not the 2d stuff we're used to, but hypermedia) online shopping (peruse a hyper catalogue from Sears) online research (journals galore, all heavily cross indexed to give you the info you need, more time on research, less in the library) online news groups (above and beyond the limitations of RN) ????SOUND, GRAPHICS, TEXT???? Carlos Salinas CARLOS@ROMEO.CALTECH.EDU >From: glc@frame.UUCP (Greg Cockroft)
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.