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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: NeXT emulation?
Message-ID: <20878@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 23 Apr 91 15:04:43 GMT
References: <9104190943.12.2494@INSIDER>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <9104190943.12.2494@INSIDER> sysop@insider.zer.sub.org writes:

>The NeXT's hardware is about the same to the Amiga's hardware as the Amiga 
>is to those machines. So: NO WAY...

Compared to an A500, perhaps.  That applies equally well to the comparison
between an A3000 and an A500.  But aside from that, what do you really expect
to find inside a NeXT that would be hard to emulate?  Really, it would be 
much easier to get a hostile port of NeXTOS up on an A3000 than a hostile
port of AmigaOS up on any NeXT.  Both would take a long, long time and that
time would be wasted, since there's certainly no need to run the few NeXT
programs on the Amiga, and currently at least, the NeXT port of the Amiga
OS wouldn't perform well enough to run anything besides some basic 
productivity programs, which NeXT already has.

>---
>   SysOp @ INSIDER    --    Bugs ? Data Becker & GFA only produce FEATURES!


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