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From: petrilli@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris Petrilli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NextStep on IBM RS/6000
Summary: Waiting for OSF/1... forever...
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Date: 21 Apr 91 22:50:59 GMT
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Gerben Wierda writes:
>I can backup that story on the 1.o release vs. 2.0 release that I saw
>in a posting on this group. I have heard the same story from an IBM
>official at the CeBIT '91 in Hannover, Germany. He was one of the people
>who had been involved with NextStep on IBM and he was very enthousiastic
>about it, but he also said that the release of 2.0 had stopped IBM for
>the moment to consider even working on a release 2.0. Now I have seen a
>posting on the net describing the demo of 2.o on the RS/6000, so what is
>going on here?
>
>I also think that if NextStep will be used by NeXT owners only, the rest
>of the workstation users are badly mistreated.

I have seen both NextStep v1.0 and v2.0 on the RS/6000 systems, and
while 2.0 may be faster than 1.0 on the NeXT is is substantially
SLOWER than 1.0 on the RS/6000.

How is that you say?  If has to do with the fact that 2.0 depends more
on the features of Mach which are (like alot of other things)
unavailable under AIX.  I was told that while 1.0 will most likely be
offered this fall, 2.0 will have to wait until OSF/1 is ready.  From
what I hear from an OSF developer here in Austin, that could be a
while... like 2/3QTR NEXT year.  By that time, I believe NeXT will be
producing 3.0 (with all the really cool ideas that have been offered).
IBM also believes this (at least those in Austin that designed the
Rios machines) and from what I have heard, will wait until 3.0 to
report the system... I can just imagin NextStep running on that 730...
might even give the NeXTDimension a run for it's money... nah... too
much $$$$ for the 730.

Chris

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