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Subject: Re: info needed
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Date: 11 Nov 90 23:00:02 GMT
References: <1990Nov8.173804.5775@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1990Nov8.163535.11053@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <25336@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <3978@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
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In article <3978@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, wave@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael B. Johnson) writes:
|> In article <25336@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mfi@serc.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) writes:
|> >>In article <1990Nov8.163535.11053@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> mccool@dgp.toronto.edu (Michael McCool) writes:
|> >>>andyrose@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Andy Rose) writes:
|> >>>
|> >>
|> >>>>How about software? apE costs 75$ (?)
|> >>>	apE is $75 only if you are at a university.  Commercial users pay
|> >>>	more, but not much more.  They also make the source available!
|> >>>
|> >>
|> >>Does anyone know if apE has been ported to the NeXT?  Thanks.
|> >>
|> 
|> Yes, it was reported one comp.sys.next that apE was shown at the announcement
|> of the new machines running on them.  I don't recall if that was running on
|> an alpha of one of the color boxes, or if it was just a proof-of-concept 
|> running on a more stable platform, i.e. the 2 bit box.
|> 

	We got a notice from OSCP the other day saying that the apE
2.0 distribution has been delayed until they've finished the NeXT
port. Personally I wouldn't have minded if they weren't porting to
NeXT :-)

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