Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!aplcomm!capd.jhuapl.edu!waltrip From: waltrip@capd.jhuapl.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: FSF NeXTstep Message-ID: <1991May10.170155.1@capd.jhuapl.edu> Date: 10 May 91 22:01:55 GMT References: <282AE226.3250@deneva.sdd.trw.com> <1991May10.192720.10614@data.com> Sender: news@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU Organization: CAPVAX, JHU/APL Lines: 32 In article <1991May10.192720.10614@data.com>, smb@data.com (Steven M. Boker) writes: [...material deleted...] > > I see three major clusters at this point. Sun and ATT are one cluster. > They have the lead and the momentum. OSF is the second cluster. They > are fairly disorganized and some might say that they don't have a clear > purpose other than not-Sun (or should I say !Sun). The third cluster > is forming around Microsoft. Microsoft feels that it is strong enough > to cohese a group of venders around Windows running over OS/2 or SCO !Unix. I believe you're referring to the so-called ACE consortium with DEC, Microsoft, Intel et al. ACE will support two hardware architures (Intel and MIPS R4000) and two Operating Systems: "portable" OS/2 and OSF/1 UN*X which will be implemented by SCO using ULTRIX code contributed by DEC (consisting of the work they've already done on adapting OSF/1 to the MIPS chip) as the starting point. The UN*X GUI will be Motif and not Microsoft Windows (though I wouldn't be surprised to see a Windows implementation on the MIPS box any more than seeing Motif on the Intel box). Certainly the ACE MIPS box (OSF/1, of course, being a Mach implementation) is a candidate for a NeXTstep port. A graphics monitor will be standard and the box will be fast (by today's standards:^) c.f.waltrip Internet: Opinions expressed are my own.