Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!datran2!smb
From: smb@datran2.uunet (Steven M. Boker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: IBM NextStep (Re: Tao newsletter now available for ftp)
Summary: Release date slippage.
Message-ID: <448@datran2.uunet>
Date: 28 Jun 90 17:22:41 GMT
References: <8374@ubc-cs.UUCP> <6058@helios.TAMU.EDU> <8392@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Organization: Data Transforms, Denver, CO
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In article <8392@ubc-cs.UUCP>, manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) writes:
> IBM is claiming delivery for Next Step on the RS/6000 as 4Q90, which,
> with slippage, will probably be early '91

I just asked this question of an RS6000 developers rep here in Denver
and he went and asked the question up on the mountain.  The new word
is end of second quarter '91.  That isn't unreasonable, since if I were
to order and RS6000 right now, with the 52 week ARO lead time I would
get the machine and NeXTStep in the same shipment.

I have some reasons to believe that NeXTStep on AIX is much further
along than that.  In My Arrogant Opinion, IBM is holding the release
of NeXTStep for its own inscrutable reasons.

Steve. 

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