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From: cmac@gehenna (Chris MacAskill)
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Subject: Re: Why NextStep is not on RS/6000
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Date: 17 May 91 02:12:31 GMT
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In article <1991May16.212049.19976@menudo.uh.edu> mahmoud@csund.cs.uh.edu  
writes:
> Rumor on why IBM is not very enthusiastic
> about NeXTstep  on its RS/6000 workstion.
> 
> An IBM rep told me the other day that it is not IBM that
> Is not enthusiastic but its Mr. Steve Jobs that is holding out on 
> IBM. The story is that even though IBM gave steve 10 million++
> for NeXTstep to run on its workstations he now claims that
> he sold them a license for NS1.0 only and not for NS2.0.

Actually, IBM has a license to 2.0 and it includes color support.  We hope  
their color is dazzling and shows off NeXTstep very well.  

Chris MacAskill
cmac@next.com