Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!kithrup!sef From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Will NeXT survive? Grow with the times? Message-ID: <1991May03.215248.29012@kithrup.COM> Date: 3 May 91 21:52:48 GMT References: <1991May1.160128.1367@sono.uucp> <8283@uceng.UC.EDU> <3111@cirrusl.UUCP> Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Lines: 21 In article <3111@cirrusl.UUCP> Rahul Dhesi writes: >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? I think it's more the case that everything is behind DOS. Also, various vendors add things to their systems which cause incompatabilities. For example, SCO XENIX and UNIX have some ioctl's on the console which don't exist under other vendors' versions. As a result, if an application was written under sco *nix, then it would take some (possibly non-trivial) work to port it to another version of *nix. But it's mostly a software issue, not hardware. More accurately, it's a *system* issue. -- Sean Eric Fagan | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; sef@kithrup.COM | I had a bellyache at the time." -----------------+ -- The Turtle (Stephen King, _It_) Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.