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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: XNext
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Date: 13 Mar 91 08:15:31 GMT
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In article <1991Mar12.212422.24081@wdl1.wdl.loral.com> mdm@wdl50.wdl.loral.com (Mike D Marchionna) writes:
>However, this is all rather silly since there already is a NeXTStep application 
>called SoftPC that lets you run PC applications directly on your NeXT.  

Not really. Even if displayed with X, the computing performance of a
486 remains higher than any SoftPC. It does not make sense to buy a PC
to run X on it to run it on a NeXT. It can make sense though, if you
have a PC-network server or something smilar, that you want to access. 

Ronald
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