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- From: gbrown@raven.ctr.columbia.edu (Glenn Brown)
- Subject: Re: MATLAB (the missing piece)
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:14:23 GMT
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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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