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Article #3325Re: MATLAB (the missing piece)
From: Glenn Brown
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:14
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:14
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Personally, I think that considering the size of the NeXT market, we should be thankful that MATLAB will be ported to the NeXT at all. The software companies are going to write for sun sparcstations (and therefore X, the prefered windowing system for sparcs) before NeXTs as a matter of course, and the only reason there will be a port the small NeXT market is that the NeXT also runs X on unix and is therefore easy to port to. Obviously, NeXTstep is a far better windowing system than X: It far easier from a programming point of view (though it is harder to customize than the X window managers). NeXT has the right idea: Get NeXTstep running on as many machines as possible and then more software will be ported to NeXTstep. This is a big reason NeXTstep is now running on 486's. Personally, I think that NeXTstep should be ported to sparcs, also. That would be best for the world of users... though it might not be best for NeXT. --Glenn
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!nobody From: gbrown@raven.ctr.columbia.edu (Glenn Brown) Subject: Re: MATLAB (the missing piece) References: <!h21Hsjxla@atlantis.psu.edu> Sender: nobody@ctr.columbia.edu Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:14:23 GMT Message-ID: <1992Nov11.101423.4758@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> X-Posted-From: raven.ctr.columbia.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu Lines: 17