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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT emulator (was Re: Mac emulator)
Message-ID: <895@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 17 Oct 90 00:10:10 GMT
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In article <MailManager.656119593.9952.lane@ssrg-next-1.stanford.edu>
	lane@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Christopher Lane) writes:
>What if we reverse this question.  Take a close look at the Macintosh IIci and
>you'll see most of the NeXT 030 cube hardware.  Instead of figuring out what
>it takes to bring up the Mac OS on a NeXT, how about the problem of bringing
>up the NeXT OS on the IIci so we can put some of these machines to useful
>work.

I don't think even that's necessary--how about a window server?
NeXTs are aggressively priced compared to other workstations,
but cash-poor Universities are looking seriously at X Terminals.
Hey, we have MacX, right?  Why not NextStep?

					-=EPS=-