From: szatrows@gandalf.rutgers.edu (John Kheit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: NeXT Users' Choice Award Winners 1992 (LONG)
Keywords: NUCA Users' Choice Award 1992 Winner
Date: 26 Jan 93 01:49:07 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


	Unfortunately, I started this project a little too late to
give the voters a really long time to think about and vote for the choice
products of 1992. However, next year the organization of the NUCA will
be better. Also I'm working on getting the trophies finished. I hope
to have them out to all the winners ASAP.
	Drum roll... And the winners are...
Well, the people have spoken and the best NeXTSTEP product of 1992 is
NeXTSTEP 3.0. Kudos to NeXT for putting out a really nice product
	The really hot products this year were NeXTSTEP 3.0, Virtuoso,
DataPhile and the Zyxel modem. These products received the greatest
number of votes in multiple categories. NeXT did very well; they won
in the Overall Product of the Year, Software Development, Software
Wordprocessing (actually the most common response to this category was
"What wordprocessor?"), Software Utility, Hardware Display, Hardware
Mass Storage, Hardware Printing/Output, Hardware Video, Hardware
Other, and Overall Best Hardware categories.
	Altsys' Virtuoso was the single best product in that it won in
the Software Desk Top Publishing, Software Graphics and Overall Best
Software categories.
	Congratulations to all of the winners!

(The complete results may be found on the orst and/or purdue FTP site
in the submissions directory--if I can get it up there!)

Overall Product of the Year_________________________________
1. NeXTSTEP 3.0
2. Virtuoso
3. Executor
4. Create
4. InstantTeX
4. Presto

Others mentioned (in alphabetical order)
Concurrence
Cub'X Window
Garfinkell-Mahoney Book
gcc
NeXTTeX+TeXView+dvips by Tom Rokicki
PasteUp
QuickStart
SCREENCAST
Stuart



Software___________________________________________________
Audio------------------------------------------------------
1. Presto
2. NeXT CDPlayer
2. Simon Says

Others Mentioned
Eric Clapton 'Unplugged' 
EdSnd2
GISO3.0.app
SoundWorks

Communications---------------------------------------------
1. NXFax
2. SLIP, Louis Mamakos
3. MicroPhone Pro
4. Marble Teleconnect
4. NewsGrazer
4. tip

Others Mentioned
Kermit
MailHelper
NeXTMail

DataBase---------------------------------------------------
1. DataPhile
2. DBInspector
2. DBKit 2

Others Mentioned
IXKit

Developer--------------------------------------------------
1. NeXTstep 3.0
2. ProjectBuilder

Others Mentioned
AppKit
Bill Tschumy
CheckItOut
gcc
Gnu Obj-C runtime
HeaderViewer
InterfaceBuilder
RightBrain
Stuart
SuperDebugger

Dest Top Publishing----------------------------------------
1. Virtuoso
2. PastUp
3. Create
3. Diagram

Others Mentioned
Adobe Illustrator
Concurrence
FrameMaker
NeXTTeX
RedMark

Game-------------------------------------------------------
1. AcChen
2. Oxyd
3. Hunter
3. PacMan
3. Void

Others Mentioned
CyberZone
GoldDigger
Infocom Z-Code Player
Lemmings
MineHunter

Graphic----------------------------------------------------
1. Virtuoso
2. Diagram
2. Adobe Illustrator

Others Mentioned
3D Reality
Intuitiv 3D engine beta
nPoint's 3D app
TIFFany.app

MultiMedia-------------------------------------------------
1. Concurrence
2. CraftMan

Others Mentioned
MediaView
NeXTMail
Presto

Spreadsheet------------------------------------------------
1. Improv
2. Mesa

Others Mentioned
Excel

Scientific-------------------------------------------------
1. Mathematica
2. EquationBuilder

Wordprocessing---------------------------------------------
1. Edit
2. InstantTeX
2. NeXTTeX+TeXView+dvips by Tom Rokicki
4. WriteNow 2

Others Mentioned
Emacs
FrameMaker
TeXView
Word

Utility----------------------------------------------------
1. DarkForest
1. Backspace
1. Engage
4. Opener

Others Mentioned
AreaCode
Cub'X Window
DefaultManager
Edit
Executor
MetroTools
NFSManager
Perl
Poste
QuickStart
Stuart
Virtuoso

Video------------------------------------------------------
1. Movie

Others Mentioned
NeXTtv

Other------------------------------------------------------
1. Big Green CD
1. Executor
1. monoLib CD ROM
1. SBook

Others Mentioned
IconBuilder
PencilMeIn
SciPlot
SCREENCAST
SortingInAction


Overall Software Product of the Year_______________________
1. Virtuoso
2. NeXTSTEP 3.0
3. InstantTeX
3. NeXTTeX+TeXView+dvips by Tom Rokicki
3. Presto

Others Mentioned
Concurrence
Create
Cub'X Window
DataPhile
Diagram
Engage
EquationBuilder
gcc
NewsGrazer
PasteUp
QuickStart
SBook
SCREENCAST



Hadware____________________________________________________
Audio------------------------------------------------------
1. Digital Ears

Others Mentioned
Infinity Kappa series speakers

Communications---------------------------------------------
1. ZyXEL U-1496E
2. Hayes ISDN Extender

Others Mentioned
Supra 14.4 fax/data modem
Whole Internet User's Guide by E. Kroll

Display----------------------------------------------------
1. NeXT ADB 17"
2. NeXT ADB 21"

Others Mentioned
E-machines 16" Monitor
Ikegami 20" Trinitron
NEC 5FG monitor

Graphic Input----------------------------------------------
1. HSD Scan-X Color
2. Wacom Graphics Tablet

Others Mentioned
Color Digital Eye
NeXT ADB Keyboard & Mouse

Mass Storage-----------------------------------------------
1. NeXT CD ROM Drive
2. NeXT Optical Drive

Others Mentioned
Hewlett-Packard HP-35480A DAT tape drive
128MO drive
HP-DAT drive (8GB)
SyQuest 88Mb Drive
Archive Python DAT Drive

Prining/Output---------------------------------------------
1. NeXT Color Printer
2. NeXT 400 dpi Laser Printer

Others Mentioned
HP4 & 4M

Video-------------------------------------------------------
1. Next Dimension

Other-------------------------------------------------------
1. NeXT ADB Keyboard & Mouse 4

Others Mentioned
ISDN extender
MIDI link
NeXTwatch
NeXT Screwdriver
Ninja Risc Workstation


Overall Hardware Product of the Year_______________________
1. NeXTStation Color Turbo
2. ZyXEL U-1496E
3. NeXT ADB Keyboard & Mouse

Others Mentioned
Hayes ISDN Extender
HP-35480A DAT tape drive
HP-DAT drive (8GB)
HP- PA RISC Workstations
MIDI link
NeXT CD ROM Drive
Next Dimension
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