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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1991 05:01:22 GMT

In article <jcGp1lg1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>
>Which X standard are you talking about?  Motif or Open Look?  Errrh, I
>should be asking which windowing system.
>
	Open Look comes with the system, and apparently some
company is already working on Motif.

>I think you may be over simplifying the the ease with you are going to
>get Sun software to run on the Amiga.  Anyway, wouldn't you much
>rather run that same software on an 040 NeXT, or better yet an HP
>Snake :-)?  Why is it only future software?  dBase IV, Lotus 123, and
>WP all run on the Sun now.
>
	Not at all oversimplified! That's why Commodore chose to
follow the AT&T standard. With SVR4, any program which uses the
standard Unix accompaniments, including X, will work with nothing
more than a recompile on any other machine running SVR4. In fact,
if the processor is the same no recompilation is necessary, the
binary runs on both machines. Welcome to the wonderful world of
ABI. 8)
	Why wouldn't I rather run them on an 040 NeXT? First,
please, stop this "040" next stuff, cause everyone will be
getting 040s soon enough. We're waiting for Motorola to get out
those bugs that NeXT was willing to live with. Besides, you can't
just do a recompilation to run it on the NeXT, and to use the
pretty NeXTstep/Display Postscript interface will require a
complete rewrite, so even if they did do a basic port (with
changes) it still won't take advantage of the NeXT's main
advantage.
	The reason I say future software is that, although Sun is
adopting the SVR4 standard, I don't believe it is done yet.

>-Mike


	-- Ethan

Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
A: None. It's a hardware problem.