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From: robertl@bucsf.bu.edu (Robert La Ferla)
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Subject: Re: NeXT to go with 88K (?)
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Date: 14 Apr 91 17:30:54 GMT
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In-reply-to: scott@mcs-server.gac.edu's message of 13 Apr 91 03:14:22 GMT

> In a more global sense, I think that a port of NextStep, by NeXT, to
> any non-68000 architecture is a great leap forward.  With two
> architectures under their belt, the third would be quite a bit
> simpler (unless the first two were extrememly similar).  That would
> mean that NextStep could start to propagate to other machines,
> which is a Good Thing.  For NeXT to really succeed, I think they need
> to interoperate well with DEC machines, Sun machines, and other
> established workstation vendors - what better way than to actually
> be running NextStep on them?

NeXTStep 1.0 has been running on the IBM RS/6000 for quite some time.  A
while back, Paul Kunz posted a message about his application "Reason"
running on an IBM RS/6000 Model 550 at 53 MIPS and 23 MFLOPS.  The RS/6000
is a RISC architecture.

Robert La Ferla
Lotus Development Corporation
Advanced Technology Group / Improv