Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!helios!daugher From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Walter C. Daugherity) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT Step job available Summary: maybe Solbourne or DEC? Keywords: new port of NeXTStep to RISC Message-ID: <9968@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 10 Nov 90 18:46:10 GMT References: <1436@ul-cs.ulowell.edu> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Organization: Texas A&M University Lines: 44 In article <1436@ul-cs.ulowell.edu> sbrunnoc@hawk.ulowell.edu (Sean Brunnock) writes: > I saw this in misc.jobs.offered... [lines deleted] > 2. The NeXT step Display Postscript Window Manager work will involve >portint NeXT step to a new architecture. It is a RISC based architecture. >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Would anyone care to venture a guess what the new RISC based architecture >might be? > > Sean Brunnock Sure, I'll guess a Sparc-maker other than Sun (e.g., Solbourne). Sun has too much ego involvement with NeWS, Open Look, etc. NeXTStep on the Sparc architecture would be dynamite--the best software development environment on the most popular workstation line! It might turn NeXT into a software company, but that's not all bad. My second guess would be DEC using a MIPS RISC CPU. DEC insists they're only interested in standards, not NeXTStep, but they're bright enough to recognize that NeXTStep is a quantum improvement over X toolkits. My third guess would be IBM. Since they're having trouble getting the RS/6000 to work (flaky C compiler, NeXTStep 2.0 a ***LONG*** time from now) they could give NeXT the next generation RS/6000 chips (I would bet a minimum of 4 times faster than the current ones). Finally, whatever happened to Daewoo, who was reported in July to be working on a Leading Edge Next-compatible? Any other guesses? Or, better yet, anybody ***KNOW***? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu Knowledge Systems Research Center uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher Texas A & M University BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS College Station, TX 77843-3112 CSNET: daugher%cs.tamu.edu@RELAY.CS.NET ---Not an official document of Texas A&M--- -- Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu Texas A & M University uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher College Station, TX 77843-3112 BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS ---Not an official document of Texas A&M---