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From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
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Subject: Re: NeXTstep port to rs6000
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Date: 24 Jan 91 06:15:23 GMT
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In article <1991Jan23.152038.2324@ms.uky.edu> johnc@ms.uky.edu (John Coppinger) writes:
>My impression was that the port of NeXTStep 1.0 was withdrawn so they
>could work on porting 2.0.

I hope this is the case.

>If they have dropped it all together, it's
>probably because they realized that they could never cludge together
>an interface library in C++, and they weren't prepared to commit to
>Objective C.  If that's true, then I think they'll regret their
>inflexibility in the future.

If it's true [that IBM NeXTstep has been dropped entirely] this is
very bad news for anyone who wants to see NeXTstep become a viable
multi-vendor platform, and it makes a usable X implementation for 2.0
even more important than before.

Does anyone have facts instead of rumors on this?

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