Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!uunet!olivea!tymix!cirrusl!ss168!dhesi From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Will NeXT survive? Grow with the times? Message-ID: <3111@cirrusl.UUCP> Date: 3 May 91 21:30:20 GMT References: <11399@uwm.edu> <1991Apr29.144421.19819@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <1991May1.160128.1367@sono.uucp> <8283@uceng.UC.EDU> Sender: news@cirrusl.UUCP Reply-To: Rahul Dhesi Lines: 9 In <8283@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny) writes: >RISC is 2 years ahead in hardware speed, but >it is AT LEAST 2 years behind in applications base... Are vendors still writing software targeted to specific CPUs? Why? -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi