> What I'm trying to say here is that the glass is not half empty, it's
> half full.
Agreed... and filling... Slowly.
> As an engineering/scientific user and developer, I can
> testify that the scientific and engineering community would prefer to
> use and develop under NeXTSTEP rather than other environments;
> however, the X window "inertia" is fairly difficult to overcome.
> This must be countered by persistence.
And NeXTSTEP ported to those machines that are already on
scientists desktops. Suns, especially.
If NeXTSTEP itself was developed on Sun3's before the first NeXT
prototypes (as one source has told me), then this is not a giant leap. Or even a small one. But I'm sure the guys at NeXT are all way ahead of us already on this score. They're no bozo's.
Software, hardware--yes. The jury's still out on the others. And THAT is the problem here.
