Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!ukma!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eagle!data.nas.nasa.gov!data!gumby From: gumby@Cygnus.COM (David V. Wallace) Subject: NeXT to go with 88K (?) References: <151480@pyramid.pyramid.com> <1991Apr10.215125.28932@neon.Stanford.EDU> <2473@fornax.UUCP> Date: 13 Apr 91 14:50:21 Organization: Cygnus Support, Palo Alto, California Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov In-Reply-To: melling@cs.psu.edu's message of 12 Apr 91 14:40:00 GMT Message-ID: Lines: 15 Date: 12 Apr 91 14:40:00 GMT From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Call me crazy, but I don't think developers should have too many problems just recompiling their programs. Believe me it's a severe hassle since you have to rebuild everything, run it through your QA, change your documentation and price list, get your support folks to know about the change (since people will ask new questions about it, even if the hackers know it's the same). All this is easier for little companies than for big ones. The converter I mentioned would be some sort of stopgap users could use though; I wasn't anticipating that companies would use it and ship the product that way!