From: "Richard G. Roberto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm not a GUI programmer, so maybe its a neato devel platform, > but 99.999999% of people using computers aren't writing GUIs.
Yes, it was wonderful to develop for. > Again, I'm not a developer, but NeXT seems to have achieved > virtual bankrupcy. I agree that Steve seems to spend a lot more time at Pixar these days. However the real problem with the NeXT interface was that it was too far ahead of its time - for example, it ran a PostScript renderer on a 68030 to operate the GUI, and that was a good lot of load for a 68030. Memory also cost 10 times more than it does now, so none of those systems had enough of it. They also had to license the renderer from Adobe for big bucks, or they would have been able to give the software away (which is what everyone else does when they want something to catch on in the market). The interface wasn't so bad, it's just that the computer wasn't up to running it. Hopefully GNUstep will catch on. I hope we can straighten out the compiler issues and have good GNUstep support on Debian. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]