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From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Dr. Walter C. Daugherity)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Release 2.0 and the 68040
Keywords: Release 2.0, 68040
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Date: 13 Jul 90 16:07:31 GMT
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For your information, System 2.0 (to begin shipping this fall when the
68040 NeXTs do) will still run on the 68030 NeXTs, and NeXT is committed to
making sure all programs WHICH CONFORM TO THE CURRENT NeXTSTEP 1.0 API will
run under 2.0.  (Note emphasis.)

Also, 1.0 will not run on the 68040; but who would want to?  (Unless of 
course the terrible even-numbered-versions-don't-run heuristic applies:
many software packages etc. [which will remain nameless to protect the
guilty] have a reasonably functional version 1 or 1.1, but then the vendor
relaxes and says "Now we're shipping, let's put in all the things that
didn't make it into version 1" and version 2 is a disaster.  Then version 3
cleans things up and version 4 repeats the cycle.  Well, you get the picture,
and it's just a joke, but hey NeXT, don't let us down with a lot of new
bugs in 2.0!)

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