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NeXT Nugget News Digest (vol. 5, issue 4, October 15, 1992)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Xanthus Announces Laserman for the NeXT
II. "Incomplete Guide to the Internet" is available
III. Article from Trading Systems and Technology
IV. NeXTSTEP Documentation: Addison-Wesley Publishers
V. DBInspector - Sybase browser w/ Japanese interface available
VI. NeXT and EDUCOM'92 (Baltimore, Maryland)
VII. Open Positions: NeXT Developer (Southwest, Washington, Canada)
VIII. Music CD ('91 Nashville MultiMedia Conference) by Paul Lansky
IX. Versant Object Technology Announces NeXTSTEP version of ODBMS
X. Metrosoft Announces MetroTools
XI. GatorFTP+ App Makes Archive Access as Easy as Point and Click
XII. Positions: Systems Engineer, NeXT Computer (Dallas, Atlanta)
All previous Nugget News Digest issues are archived at the
Purdue ftp archive site: sonata.cc.purdue.edu under the following
Mailbox format files and directories:
April - June, 1992:
/pub/next/submissions/Nugget_News_Digest_Q2_1992.tar.Z
July - September, 1992:
/pub/next/submissions/Nugget_News_Digest_Q3_1992.tar.Z
Conrad Geiger
Manager, International NeXT User Groups
P.S. To be added or deleted from this distribution, please send email
to "nugget@next.com."
____________________________________________________________________
I. Xanthus Announces Laserman for the NeXT
Xanthus International Announces
LaserMan
- the Laser Disc Player Controller for the NeXT Computer
(Stockholm, October 1, 1992) Xanthus International AB today announced
that it is shipping LaserMan, its Laser Disc Player control
application for the NeXT computer platform.
Aimed at both commercial and in-house corporate multimedia
developers, LaserMan is an application for controlling Laser Disc
Players from the NeXT computer. LaserMan can control Laser Disc
Players either directly through a remote control on the computer
screen, or through messages from other applications via a
Speaker/Listener interface.
For example, LaserMan can be used in combination with Xanthus
CraftMan - the multimedia programming tool from Xanthus - to produce
complete Laser Disc based multimedia applications in a very short
time.
LaserMan can also be used to control other consumer electronics like
tape recorders and VCRs, and can be configured to control any device
with a RS-232 interface.
Xanthus International, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, is a
privately owned software development company that specializes in the
NeXTSTEP platform. LaserMan is the second in a series of
general-purpose productivity tools for NeXTSTEP. In May 1992 Xanthus
started to ship its first product CraftMan, the multimedia
programming tool for the NeXT computer. Xanthus International was
founded in 1990.
For more information about LaserMan please contact
laserman@xanthus.se
____________________________________________________________________
II. "Incomplete Guide to the Internet" is available
From: cfarmer@ncsa.uiuc.EDU (Chuck Farmer)
Subject: Incomplete Guide to the Internet
The "Incomplete Guide ..." is now available for anonymous FTP at:
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in the /misc directory.
This manual basically a how to book for teachers and
students. The first half of the text is devoted to the mechanics of
telecommunications, how to connect, what to do once you are
connected, etc. The second have the manual is devoted to current
telecommunications projects, past successful projects, and resources.
The resources include FTP sites, open BBS's and networks, Free-Nets,
subscription services, and where to get more information on each
resource.
This resource was complied by the Living Lab program (NSF
funded) at NCSA as an attempt to encourage the proliferation of HPCC
use in the K-12 classroom. We welcome your comments and suggestions.
Chuck Farmer
Education Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
152 Computer Applications Building
605 E. Springfield Ave.
Champaign, IL. 61820
Thanx
Chuck
cfarmer@ncsa.uiuc.edu
____________________________________________________________________
III. Article from Trading Systems and Technology
Trading Systems and Technology
September 21, 1992
Pages 11 - 12
Workstations and Analytics
Trade School? Carnegie Teams With Reuters, NeXT and Others
The Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh has launched a so-called simulated global
trading program for research and education. Under the scheme, the
university will work closely with trading-room system vendors to
develop and test new products and to port existing products to new
platforms. At the heart of the program- which is called Financial
Analysis and Security Trading (FAST) - is the so-called simulated
trading room. The room will serve as both a classroom for would-be
traders and a lab for testing quantitative trading strategies. For
FAST, Carnegie Mellon has corralled a big-name group of industry and
technology partners, including Citibank, Fuji Bank, IBM, J.P. Morgan
& Co., Leading Market Technologies Inc., Lotus Development Corp.,
Mellon Bank, Merrill Lynch & Co., Morgan Stanley & Co., NeXT Computer
Inc., Northern Telecom, Reuters and Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
The users of the simulated trading room will be business-school
students and faculty, as well as vendor representatives and
professionals from partner firms. While they'll display and
manipulate actual real-time market data, they won't trade with real
money. A number of tests are already scheduled. Developers from
Reuters -- which will be FAST's primary data distribution system
provider-are currently installing the Triarch 2000 and Effix Systemes
S.A. workstation software on NeXT workstations, something that hasn't
been pulled off to date. While Triarch 2000's APls have been run on a
NeXT platform before -at First Boston Corp. in Tokyo (TST, Feb. 24) -
the Effix software hasn't.
At the same time, Lotus Development Corp. installing its 1-2-3
Realtime spreadsheet on Hewlett-Packard Co. UNIX RISC-based
processors. Meanwhile, Carnegie Mellon has ordered two parallel
processors and a data storage and retrieval processor from Sequent.
Come January, the vendor will install on this hardware a prototype
system that will allow real-time parallel processing of market data
as well as, simultaneously, distribution of that market data to
traders.
Trader Teachers
According to, Sanjay Srivastava, a Carnegie Mellon professor and
co-creator of he program (along with Professor John O'Brien), Reuters
staff came prepared two weeks ago to install three versions of the
Triarch/Effix system-accessible via workstations from Sun
Microsystems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and NeXT. Srivastava says
that only the NeXT version is not operable to date. (Sun and H-P do
not have partnership relationships with the program, despite their
presence in its trading room.) Reuters has not attempted to install
the system on IBM RS/6000s yet-though FAST intends to use that
platform as well. The program has only one RS/6000 in-house at the
moment. Srivastava says that Reuters is pleased that FAST plans to
maintain a variety of platforms. He says the vendor has expressed an
interest in using the Carnegie-Mellon site as an opportunity to
refine its systems' ability to run on multiple platforms. He adds,
however, that because NeXT was especially cooperative with the
university, a deal has been struck for the program to take delivery
of 30 NeXTstations by December. Srivastava says that Carnegie Mellon
owns a percentage of NeXT.
The NeXTs will coexist on an Ethernet local area network with smaller
numbers of IBM RS/6000s, Suns and HPs. All will be supported by
Triarch/Effix applications running on three Sun servers. The data is
delivered via Reuters Selectfeed digital data feed service.The
trading room now accommodates 14 positions. By the end of the year,
however, Srivastava says that number will more than double: Not only
will the program have taken delivery on the NeXTs, but there is
currently also an agreement in place with IBM for six RS/6000s.
FAST Friends
Srivastava says that while all the vendors involved have provided
equipment at or below cost, the degree of discount is inversely
proportional to the vendor's penetration of the trading-room systems
market. The bigger their market share the more we have to pay,"
Srivastava says. Relationships between the university and the
various trading firms on FAST's list vary, Srivastava says. Four
firms have sent individual research staffers and traders to develop
and test quantitative trading strategies on-site at Carnegie Mellon.
In exchange for putting in the time and making themselves available
to students in the program, these individuals can use the resources
of the university to work on projects of interest to their employers.
The four individuals are George Pastrana, a researcher and developer
of analytics with Morgan Stanley's derivatives trading group; Rich
Tlmbrel, a researcher with J.P. Morgan & Co.'s derivatives group;
Evan Picoult, who has developed risk management systems for Citibank;
and Rich Rua, Mellon's head trader.
The four firms retain the rights to use the application developed by
their representatives on the program-though Srivastava says the
school may continue to use parts of the analytics for educational
purposes.
Srivastava says that Fuji and Merrill will collaborate with the
program on special projects. Meanwhile, a number of other firms,
including Goldman Sachs & Co. and Chemical Bank have made staffers
available to serve as advisors and job placement counselors to
students in the program. These staffers are typically Carnegie Mellon
alumni. Later, Carnegie Mellon will set up a system whereby firms and
banks may become "affiliates" of the program. This will require a
donation on the part of the firm.
Global Classroom
According to Srivastava, a later phase of the program calls for
global expansion. Northern Telecom is providing wide area networking
facilities that make use of the vendor's Apple Computer Inc.
Macintosh-based Visit system. Visit is a video interface that makes
use of Mac processors: It allows users to see each other, as well as
to interact using the same computer files. In this way, Srivastava
says, student traders at Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin university will be
able to collaborate next spring with Carnegie Mellon students.
Similar arrangements are in the works for Mexico's Monterey Institute
of Technology. Northern Telecom provided a fiber-optic leased phone
link between Pittsburgh and Tokyo. Srivastava says the program
already had a Mac cluster installed, although not directly for the
simulated trading room.
____________________________________________________________________
IV. NeXTSTEP Documentation: Addison-Wesley Publishers
To order the latest NeXTSTEP Technical Documentation, contact Addison
Wesley or your local bookstore.
As many of you have already discovered, there has been an incorrect
800 number being given out to order NeXT Technical Documentation from
Addison-Wesley directly.
The correct numbers are:
Addison-Wesley: 1-800-447-2226
617-942-2829 (for Europe and Asia)
____________________________________________________________________
V. DBInspector - Sybase browser w/ Japanese interface available
From: Timothy Reed <treed@bmt.gun.com>
Subject: DBInspector - Sybase browser w/ Japanese interface on the
archives...
I finally got around to posting a demo version our DBInspector
application to the archives. DBInspector is a fast and easy to use
Sybase database browser, query builder, and Improv gateway for
NeXTSTEP that includes something that very few applications (let
alone Sybase database interfaces) feature: a Japanese interface. The
application is fully localized for English and Japanese, including
documentation. The demo version quits after 25 Sybase transactions;
of course, the real version does not.
Look on cs.orst.edu and nova.cc.purdue.edu for
pub/next/submissions/DBInspectorDemo-2.0.tar.Z. For more
information, send e-mail to dbinspector@bmt.gun.com.
Thanks!
Tim
---
Tim Reed, Black Market Technologies, Inc.
501 Hicks Street, #307
Brooklyn, NY 11231
USA
Voice: +1 718 522-5090 E-mail: treed@bmt.gun.com
"Written documentation is an admission of failure."
____________________________________________________________________
V. Announcing: Two CDROM Disks Available for NeXT users as Resources
Attached is an announcement on a product created by two of the most
valuable members of NJUG (NeXT Jersey Users Group).
As most NeXT users know, there is a wealth of information and
programs stored on the university archives. However, unless you have
access to internet, you cannot reach this priceless data.
In response to several requests from people that do not have access
to the archives, monoChrome Inc. has produced two comprehensive CDs
which not only provide the information and programs but also
categorizes them for easy perusal and access.
I think these CDs are priceless and strongly recommend that you take
advantage of it.
Enjoy!
Siamak Farah
Announcement: NEW CD ROM DISC FOR NEXT 3.0 COMPATIBLE COMPUTERS.
*** Will be shipping on 10/15/92 ***
If you wish to reserve your copy in advance...We have started a
waiting list and will not cash your check or money order until your
CD has shipped.
Company: monoChrome Inc.
Company Address: 173 Westgate Drive
Edison, NJ 08820-1163
Email: kheit@hangout.rutgers.edu
soni@rwja.umdnj.edu
Product Name: monoLib (monolithic Library)
Product Description: 2 CD ROMs full of shareware/freeware/demoware,
info, source code (shareware, freeware, demoware, examples, GNU,
modules, scripts, classes etc), graphics (tiff, gif, eps, ps, etc),
literature (recipes, bible, works of over 50 different authors,
lyrics), references (FAQ's, NeXTanswers etc), and other files
typically found on FTP (next and non next) archive sites.
Pricing: $90.00 (US)
Volume, User Group, & Higher Education discount rates are available.
Our Propaganda: We (John Kheit & Arv Soni) are members of the NeXT
New Jersey Users Group and were putting together a public domain
shareware/demoware/etc.ware collection for our NeXT user group. John
was in charge of maintaining the software library for the group and
found it was killing him. The users suggested that we put the over 1
gigabyte worth of software on a CD. So we did! This task was much
more difficult than we had expected, but was extremely pleasureful
because of all the great (and we really do mean this) people we got
to know by making this product. We always thought that the next
community and its developers were wonderful people but doing this
project has proven this to be fact.
John & Arv
Other Info:
- Over 1 gig of Information on 2 CD ROMs.
- Information is uncompressed and usable right off the
CD ROM
- Information, references, literature are all indexed
with Digital Librarian
- A great wealth of programming examples and source code
You can pay for your CD's with a personal check, money order or COD.
(personal checks take 2 weeks to clear).
Please eMail all the following information back to us if ordering
COD: Please make the subject: COD Order.
-------------------------------------------------------ORDER FORM:
Name: _________________________________________________
Address: _________________________________________________
City: _________________________________________________
State: _________________________________________________
Zip Code: _________________________________________________
Country: _________________________________________________
Item #
Quantity: _________X $90.00 = $__________.____
Shipping & Handling US 2nd Day COD $15.00+ $__________.____
S&H US 2nd Day not COD $07.50+ $__________.____
Shipping & Handling Foreign (COD) Depends on location
Shipping & Handling Foreign (not COD) Depends on location
6% New Jersey Sales Tax (if you are in NJ) + $__________.____
_____________________________________________________________________
Total = $__________.____
(NOTE, these prices are all in US CURRENCY)
(please include only ONE Shipping/Handling charge.
If it is a Foreign order, we will get back to you regarding the
shipping costs; but as an example, shipping to Berlin, Germany will
cost approximatly $50.00)
If you are paying by check or money order please US mail this form
(filled out) back to us with payment at:
monoChrome Inc.
173 Westgate Drive
Edison, NJ 08820-1163
USA
____________________________________________________________________
VI. NeXT and EDUCOM'92 (Baltimore, Maryland)
NeXT will be at this year's EDUCOM. Drop by and see us!
EDUCOM'92
October 28 - 30, Baltimore, MD
Where: NeXT Exhibit Booth #702
Baltimore Convention Center
One West Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD
NeXT Hospitality Suite
Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel
Severn II & III P 2nd Floor
300 South Charles Street
Baltimore, MD
When: NeXT Exhibit Booth
Oct. 28 4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Oct. 29 1:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Oct. 30 12:45 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Also:
Contact Lee Watkins (watkins@nextlee.hcf.jhu.edu) regarding a
NeXT User Group gathering at EDUCOM.
____________________________________________________________________
VII. Open Positions: NeXT Developer (Southwest, Washington, Canada)
Job Title: NeXTSTEP Developer
Number of Openings: 1-3
Likely Duration: Various
Job Description: NeXTSTEP applications developer at various
locations in the Southwest, Washington, and
Canada.
Candidate Qualifications:
- Registered NeRD with developers camp certification.
- Prefer over 2 years solid work experience in development in
a NeXT environment.
Taos Mountain Software, a Mountain View, CA based Unix Contract-
ing and Training company, has several Unix contract openings.
Taos Mountain offers its W2 contractors Health Insurance, Educa-
tional Reimbursement, business cards, Internet access, and we
work hard to keep our contractors busy from one contract to
another. Contact us for details.
When replying, please indicate req number and job title.
Please send only flat ascii resumes.
USMail: Jerry Bowes
Taos Mountain Software
415 Clyde Ave., Suite 105
Mountain View, CA 94043
voice: (415) 961-2100
fax: (415) 961-6668
email: tms@netcom.com
____________________________________________________________________
VIII. Music CD ('91 Nashville MultiMedia Conference) by Paul Lansky
To all my USENIX friends:
I'm pleased to announce that a CD containing some
of the pieces I played at the '91 Nashville MultiMedia
conference has been commercially released. It contains
Table's Clear (the kitchen-gamelan piece), Night Traffic,
Quakerbridge (the shopping mall piece) and two other pieces
which I didn't play.
It is called Homebrew, and is published by
Bridge Records, BDC 9035. Tower Records should
carry it but you can also get it directly from
Bridge for $15, which includes shipping and
handling within the U.S.
Bridge Records
GPO Box 1864
New York, NY 10116
phone: 516-487-1662
Sorry it took so long. I'd love some feedback
from you all.
Paul Lansky
paul@silvertone.princeton.edu
___________________________________________________________________
IX. Versant Object Technology Announces NeXTSTEP version of ODBMS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Matt Miller
Director, Corporate Marketing
Versant Object Technology
(415) 329-7538
Email: mattm@versant.com
(Until 12/31/92, we are offering the database and an Objective C
interface at a special price (over 80% off) and have an ad in the
fall issue of NeXTWORLD Mag for this promotion.)
VERSANT ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR NeXT
NeXT users to gain access to distributed data stored in VERSANT ODBMS
Menlo Park, CA, July 21,1992 -- Versant Object Technology Corporation
today announced plans to port its object database management system
(ODBMS) to the NeXT line of computers. Versant will develop the new
version as part of an agreement with one of its large customers,
WilTel Inc. of Houston, Texas,
"Versant is committed to supporting the NeXT product line," said P.
Michael Seashols, president and CEO of Versant. "NeXT is an
applications development technology leader and is an important
platform for leading edge users of object technology."
The VERSANT ODBMS is the leading client/server ODBMS available,
providing high-performance processing coupled with an advanced
workgroup architecture. VERSANT delivers transparent, multi-user
access to objects distributed anywhere in the network.
Network Management Application
"WilTel is employing VERSANT as the underlying ODBMS in a state-of
the-art network management system," said Vince Jordan director of
software development at WillTel. "We looked at all the ODBMSs out
there and found that VERSANT was the only one that really fit with
what we're doing on the NeXT platform. Versant has the best product
architecture of any ODBMS and also showed that it was the company we
wanted to work with."
The VERSANT ODBMS for NeXT is priced at $XXXX for a development
license.
About Versant
Versant Object Technology is the preeminent supplier of
high-performance object-oriented database management systems.
Versant features the most advanced ODBMS architecture available,
making it the ideal foundation for object-based applications. The
Versant product family also includes an integrated set of graphical
development tools, language interfaces and gateways to non-Versant
databases such as ORACLE.
____________________________________________________________________
X. Metrosoft Announces MetroTools
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Mary Donnelly 619-488-9411
SAN DIEGO, Calif., September 8, 1992 -- Metrosoft today announced
major enhancements and a price reduction for MetroTools, its suite of
six utilities designed for the NeXT Computer. Metrosoft will
demonstrate version 1.1.2 of the product at the Seybold Conference
and Exposition, being held in San Fransisco September 22-24.
MetroTools consists of a Font Installer, Application Launcher,
NiteLite, Archiver, File Locator, and Sound Importer. MetroTools
1.1.2 now ships with the most powerful dock extender on the market
and an enhanced Font Installer which now recognizes and converts more
Macintosh fonts than ever before. Please contact us for new pricing
at <info@metrosoft.com>.
"MetroTools has always been an excellent value, but with release
1.1.2 its price/performance ratio makes it a must-have for every NeXT
computer." said Gordon Van Huizen, Metrosoft's President.
Font Installer - Takes the mystery out of installing fonts, and opens
the NeXT to megabytes of available Macintosh typefaces. The user
drags and drops font icons into the MetroTools panel for one-step
installation.
Application Launcher - Provides the user with an unparalleled degree
of customization for their dock extension with up to 32 highly
configurable docks.
Each dock can stand alone or be a subgroup of the main Application
Launcher dock, and can be configured to appear in several forms
including: Standard icon dock, Miniature icon dock, Icon dock with
names, Miniature icon dock with names, Name dock (with no icons, two
different sizes). Each dock may be reduced down to a single tile and
then displayed at full size with a single mouse-click, and may be
oriented in any of four directions. Each group can also be
color-coded by setting its text to be a unique color.
NiteLite - A full featured screen saver that protects the screen from
phosphor burn-in. Comes with several modules and is also compatable
with Back Space Modules. Users can select a module as a workspace
backdrop. This utility includes a screen lock feature to secure the
user's work, requiring a password to "unlock" the screen.
Archiver - In one step, users can drag and drop files into the
Archiver to compress multiple files into one f ile. Users can later
decompress for installation, backup and distribution.
File Locator - Searches for files using powerful filters such as:
name, kind, date, size and owner. Users can set parameters for the
search quickly and easily.
Sound Importer - Imports Macintosh sounds for use in any NeXT
application.
MetroTools is available directly from Metrosoft and authorized
resellers including NeXTConnection. For pricing on retail and
educational sales please contact us at <info@metrosoft.com>.
Developer, quantity and site license discounts are available.
740 13th Street, Suite 503, San Diego, California 92101
Voice 619-488-9411 Fax 619-488-3045 NeXTmail: info@metrosoft.com
MetroTools is a trademark of Metrosoft, Inc. NeXT is a trademark of
NeXT Computer, Inc. Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple
Computer Co.
____________________________________________________________________
XI. GatorFTP+ App Makes Archive Access as Easy as Point and Click
Greetings from Chuck Fleming at Allegheny College and Mike Mezzino
from the University of Houston, Clear Lake:
The latest version of GatorFTP+ is now available by anonymous ftp
from pellns.alleg.edu. You can find the executable in /pub/Misc and
the source in /pub/Source/Misc.
Significant improvements were made to the original program, GatorFTP,
by Mike Mezzino, of the Department of Mathematics, University of
Houston - Clear Lake.
Here is a list of improvements Dr. Mezzino has made.
1) Help has been rewritten.
2) Each user has his/her own sites/login info in "~/.gatorftprc".
3) You may interrupt an ftp command.
4) If you have an account on the remote system, you may select the
root directory.
5) You may just display a remote file (README, index, etc.) -
the file is placed in "/tmp" if you want to save it.
6) You may get entire folders. Folders and multiple file
selections are displayed in dark gray in the TextField.
7) You may get a ".Z" , ".tar" or ".tar.Z" file and automatically
unravel it into your directory - the ".Z", ".tar" or ".tar.Z"
file is placed in "/tmp".
8) The browser now supports multiple file selections, labeled
"File Deck...", to ease the fetching of several files at once.
9) You may send folders or multiple files as is or you may tar
and compress them before sending.
10) You may rename and delete remote files. These features
are in the menu, since they did not seem to be as important
as the others.
11) Changing your local directory is now accomplished by just
editing the TextField labeled "Local Directory".
12) GatorFTP will now automatically sense that the remote
system is not a unix system and attempt to recognize it as a
Vax running VMS (something we have all around here). If
successful, VMS files and directories are recognized and
displayed in the usual manner.
13) There are unusual unix sites which are now usable.
E.g., seq.uncwil.edu & ftp.uu.net
14) A file filter option has been added to simplify the browser
display. For unix systems, you may suppress the ".files" and for
VMS systems, you may suppress the ".MAI, .LOG, .OBJ, .DMP"
files together with anything which doesn't include a revision
extension. An unfiltered directory will, of course, display
everything.
15) I have included the SplitView object which I used in the
interface. This allows the user to remove the ftp chatter and
enlarge the browser.
I hope everyone enjoys the new and improved version!
Thanks,
Chuck Fleming (cfleming@alleg.edu)
Mike Mezzino (mezzino@cl.uh.edu)
____________________________________________________________________
XII. Positions: Systems Engineer, NeXT Computer (Dallas, Atlanta)
Reply to: southern_area_jobs@next.com
Locations: Dallas, Texas
and
Atlanta, Georgia
THIS IS A PRE-SALES SYSTEMS ENGINEERING POSITION REQUIRING EXCELLENT
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, NETWORK AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, AND VERBAL
COMMUNICATION SKILLS.
NeXT Systems Engineers provide the technical expertise necessary
to close sales, and generally evangelize the NeXT product family.
SE's must possess superb technical skills and a sense of innovation,
combined with a personality which promotes cooperation, trust, and
the sharing of ideas. The successful candidate will have a mix of
software engineering skills, and enjoy working with people and new
technology.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Rapid prototyping of software for feasibility analysis
- Technical presentations to all levels of customers
- Integration of NeXT computers with existing systems
- Technical account management
- Provide strategic input and guidance to sales, marketing, and
engineering, regarding market conditions, product requirements,
and overall program successes or failures
A typical NeXT Systems Engineer will spend one-third of their time
writing NeXTSTEP applications for customer-based prototyping or
proof-of-concept efforts, one-third consulting one-on-one with
potential and existing customers on software development and network
engineering, and one-third performing presentations and
demonstrations of NeXTSTEP.
Necessary Skills:
- Solid software engineering background
- Ability to articulate technically complex issues to a wide variety
of audiences
- Demonstrated aptitude at working independently
- Ability to work with limited supervision in an autonomous,
results-oriented environment
- Ability to work within a team environment
- Strong problem solving skills
- Ability to juggle multiple tasks
- B.S.C.S or equivalent with 4 years experience required; M.S.C.S
preferred
Relevant Experience:
- NeXTSTEP, Objective-C, Mach
- UNIX systems programming/systems administration
- Object-oriented programming
- Advanced application programming in C, LISP, and FORTRAN (or
equivalent)
- Windowing application development (Macintosh, X11, MSWindows, etc.)
- Database application development (Sybase, Oracle, etc.)
- TCP/IP, NFS, YP/NIS
- PostScript
- Pre-sales support experience
For more information please send a cover letter, resume, and salary
history via email to ...
southern_area_jobs@next.com
or fax to 512.343.1221. Responses without cover letters will not be
considered. Please include at least one paragraph which reflects on
how your skills and experience will enable your success as a Systems
Engineer for NeXT.
_____________________________________________________________
October 1992 Byte Magazine has articles about NeXTSTEP, NT, OS/2,
and System 7.0. The following is from the NeXTSTEP article:
"The beauty of the NeXT is far more than skin deep. Its standard
operating enviornment, NextSTEP, is probably the most respected piece
of software on the planet."
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