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From: lacsap@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Pascal Chesnais)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: why X? what am I missing?
Summary: IBM R6000 will support NeXTStep
Message-ID: <4869@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 14 Jan 91 17:01:04 GMT
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Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
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In article <Fk4tjx84@cs.psu.edu>, melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
> Only on other NeXT workstations.  Not with a Cray, Connection Machine,
> Sun, IBM, HP, Data Generials,...  Get the picture.  Although it has
       ^^^
> been said before I'll say it again.  No one is contending that X is
> better than NeXT Step, we're all saying that most existing
> environments are based on X, and they will continue to be based on X.
> 
> -Mike
IBM announced that they will support NextStep on their R6000 platform.

pasc


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