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Date: Sun 03-Nov-1989 21:17:33 From: Unknown Subject: Where are the NeXT people? I was reading digests of comp.sys.next from August, and saw lots of comments from people at NeXT, Inc. itself. I find this very encouraging, showing an interest in what the post-purchase users think. People from Atari (my current machine) do the same on comp.sys.atari.st. But I haven't seen anyone from NeXT say anything in almost a month. Did the company think that maybe too much rumor was started here? Or are they busy with some project and can't reply to the group? There are several rumors about the NeXT that should be cleared up ASAP, to avoid some of the same problems that my machine currently has (vaporware and a related reputation). The NeXT is too good a machine to have this type of fate dealt to it. BTW, If anyone knows where I can register to win a fre NeXT, I would be mighty grateful :)
Date: Sun 04-Nov-1989 00:53:39 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Where are the NeXT people? I, too, would like to see some NeXT presence on the net, mostly because I'm considering buying a NeXT in the next year or so, and there are some issues I'd like to raise for NeXT's consideration. In particular, it seems to me that the Lisp really could be better integrated with the system. Additionally, I understand from my conversations with people at Franz that their inspecting, profiling and graphing tools depend on X. Now, MIT has X software that will run on the NeXT, but I don't really want to do that. I really would rather have NeXT-style programming tools in Lisp, and Franz says that they don't have the resources to provide them. I hope there is some discussion of this issue at NeXT. There are a number of reasons why I might want to do certain kinds of development on the NeXT machine, but I really want to have a good Lisp environment, and would probably choose one of a couple of other machines instead if that's what I have to do to get the Lisp that I want. >From: kline@cs.arizona.edu (Nick Kline)
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