Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!rex!uflorida!math.ufl.edu!shadrach.math.ufl.edu!bb From: bb@math.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXTStep on IBM RS/6000 Message-ID: Date: 14 Apr 91 03:40:37 GMT References: <7041@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <14475@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Sender: news@math.ufl.edu Organization: University of Florida Department of Mathematics Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: isbell@ucscf.UCSC.EDU's message of 13 Apr 91 23:32:39 GMT > I've seen NeXTStep running on an RS/6000 at a BaNG meeting (the IBM > workstation group ran the demo) I saw an RS/6000 with two color monitors in the Insidious Blue Machine hospitality suite at the Winter USENIX. It was running NextStep 2.0 in color on one monitor, and X11R-something on the other. It was mind-blowingly fast. It never crashed, and I watched people play with it for several hours. > He wasn't even sure if he'd heard of NeXTStep, but he thought that its > availability on the RS/6000 had been suspended. The software developer demoing the NextStep said that the 2.0 port was essentially done, but there were some strong doubts that management would ever market it. I personally expect it would embarass their X-flavored product line too much. -- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Bartholomew UUCP: ...gatech!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!bb University of Florida Internet: bb@math.ufl.edu