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- From: andrew@cubetech.com
- Subject: Re: MATLAB (the missing piece)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.050719.23960@cubetech.com>
- Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov16.035216.24397@doberman.uucp> <1992Nov18.034922.7405@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:07:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.034922.7405@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> gbrown@raven.ctr.columbia.edu (Glenn Brown) writes:
- >
- >> 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.
-
-
- A Sun3 is a totally different animal than Sun's current offerings.
- But, I'm sure NeXT has played around with Sun4's...
-
- It gets much easier for NeXT to do ports as they do more of them.
- Let's just hope they at least get NS486 right (and possibly not making
- last minute changes without testing would help...).
-
-
- andrew
-