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Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 9 Nov 90 03:04:00 GMT
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CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christoper Tate) writes:
>... a Mac with AUX can run both Unix software and Mac software.  The
>NeXT can only run Unix software.

Another common misconception about the NeXT.  The NeXT runs both NeXTStep
software and Unix software.  NeXTStep software is the stuff with the real
nice graphical interfaces.  NeXTStep, on the NeXT, runs on top of Unix.
However, it can run on top of almost anything.  There is a version that
runs on top of OS/2 and another that runs on IBM's AIX Unix.  It could
even run on the Mac if Apple cared to license it from NeXT and spruced up
their hardware to handle it.  

At this point, Mac software doesn't run on a NeXT.  And NeXTStep software
doesn't run on a Mac. In February, there will be a product available to let
you run MS-DOS software on a NeXT.  And perhaps there may eventually be a
Mac emulator for the NeXT.  At any rate, the software already available for
the NeXT is great stuff, and generally more powerful and at least as easy to
use as equivalent Mac products.  Of course, there are many more Mac
products; but if I want quantity I would buy an IBM-compatible or an Apple
II.