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From: gerst@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: RE: NeXT without floptical is like summer without sunshine
Message-ID: <12061.2791b98b@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 14:00:42 GMT
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Reply-To: lloyd@ucs.umass.edu (Chris Lloyd)

>Subject: Re: X11 for the NeXTstation
>From: waltrip@capd.jhuapl.edu

>In article <1117@toaster.SFSU.EDU>, eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
> [lots o'stuff deleted]
>> 
>> NeXT has better things to worry about... like developing a
>> C2-certifiable release.  
>        Well, maybe that's a biggie.  Or maybe they ought to get out of the
>        operating system development business as much as possible by
>        transitioning to OSF/x (where x should equal 1? 2?  you be the judge).
>        Adopting OSF as the NeXT OS would probably permit NeXTstep to be
>        ported to more platforms (if that's of any interest to NeXT) and would
>        give them maximum platform independence for future NeXTs.

     Why? from my understanding NeXTStep is even more OS/machine independant
     than X is, and look at what X is running on, Mac's, PC's, gazillion
     variations of Unix, NOS/VE etc... it's hardly an assembly language
     monster like the MacOS.

     Last I knew OSF/* is a BSD Unix with the Mach kernel and a slew
     of standard extensions...sounds like what I have on my cube now :)
     
>c.f.waltrip
>DDN:    <waltrip@capsrv.jhuapl.edu>
>Opinions expressed are my own.

Chris Lloyd - lloyd@ucs.umass.edu