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From: daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Walter C. Daugherity)
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Subject: Re: NeXT Step job available
Summary: maybe Solbourne or DEC?
Keywords: port NeXTStep to RISC
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Date: 10 Nov 90 19:04:44 GMT
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In article <1436@ul-cs.ulowell.edu> sbrunnoc@hawk.ulowell.edu (Sean Brunnock) writes:
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>  I saw this in misc.jobs.offered...
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>	2. The NeXT step Display Postscript Window Manager work will involve
>portint NeXT step to a new architecture. It is a RISC based architecture.
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>  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: they're having so much trouble getting the RS/6000
software to work (flaky C compiler, NeXTStep 2.0 who knows when), they might
just give NeXT the next generation RS/6000 chips (which I would bet are at
least 4 times faster than the present ones).

And what ever happened to the Computerworld report in July that Daewoo was
making a NeXT-compatible Leading Edge?

Any other guesses?  Or, better yet, anybody ***KNOW***?

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