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From: isbell@ucscf.UCSC.EDU (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: NeXTStep on IBM RS/6000
Summary: NeXTStep 1.0 runs on RS/6000, but 2.0 port seems to be on hold.
Keywords: IBM, RS/6000, NeXTStep
Message-ID: <14475@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 91 23:32:39 GMT
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In article <7041@oasys.dt.navy.mil> kurhajet@dtoa3.dt.navy.mil (Robert Kurhajetz) writes:
>of the NeXT Dimension Board set?  One last item-Is NeXTStep available
>at this time on the IBM RS/6000 series?

I asked an IBM salesman out of one of California's smaller IBM sales offices
about NeXTStep availability on the RS/6000, which he sold to my employer.  He
wasn't even sure if he'd heard of NeXTStep, but he thought that its
availability on the RS/6000 had been suspended.  NeXTStep was supposed to be an
extra-cost option on the RS/6000, so if an RS/6000 salesman doesn't even know
much about NeXTStep, how can we expect RS/6000 customers to find out?

I've seen NeXTStep running on an RS/6000 at a BaNG meeting (the IBM workstation
group ran the demo), but they said that porting 2.0 to AIX was troublesome
because of the lack of Mach threads (or anything similar) on AIX.  Apparently
2.0 takes much better advantage of Mach threads than 1.0.  So until IBM has an
AIX based on OSF/1 (which is based on Mach), I doubt we'll see NeXTStep on AIX
or any other non-Mach OS.  The IBM marketing types in the audience that night
expressed serious IBM support for NeXTStep, but I just haven't seen much
evidence of this.  Until NeXTStep becomes more widely used, I'm afraid the
mainstream will continue to suffer under X.....
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