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In article <1992Nov11.101423.4758@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>  
gbrown@raven.ctr.columbia.edu (Glenn Brown) writes:
> 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

I'm going to have to disagree on the contention, "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." If it is cost-effective for Maple,  
Mathematica, FrameMaker, Illustrator, Improv, etc. to be ported to  
NeXTstep, it should be cost-effective for MATLAB or MATRIXx to be ported.  
NeXT IS losing sales because of the absence of numerical analysis tools.

On the other hand, maybe I AM out to lunch since NeXTworld doesn't include  
such a product in their "10 most wanted" list. I guess number-crunching  
isn't important to the liberal artsy/business types who rate with NeXT.

I may be out to lunch--but I'm STILL pissed off!

Mark.
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Mark Kotanchek
Guidance & Control Dept - 363 ASB
Applied Research Lab/Penn State
P.O. Box 30
State College, PA 16804