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From: herring@cse.uta.edu (Erick Herring)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Why NextStep is not on RS/6000
Message-ID: <1991May21.042011.21878@cse.uta.edu>
Date: 21 May 91 04:20:11 GMT
References: <1991May16.212049.19976@menudo.uh.edu> <1991May17.143137.24913@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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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.
>>Also it seems like he does not want them to have color.
>>It seems like he is trying to milk them out of more money and
>>they are pretty pissed. The IBM rep said that they are willing
>>to sell NeXTstep for the RS/6000 but they are not willing to
>>look bad and sell the old version of NS. So he said the only
>>way is for steve to come to his senses and be happy with
>>his 10 mill. ++ and not be tooooooo greedy.
>>I have no idea if he was telling the truth or what...has anyone heard
>>this before.....also it this is true we should mail steveeee baby
>>a note(s) that we want to see NS2.0 on the RS/6000 and every other
>>machine that can handle it......ahmed

Hello, all!

Since this thread is persisting,  I would like to take this
opportunity to reiterate what one of the guys at NeXT said: IBM is
entitled to System 2.0 and color support, and we hope that their
machines show both of these off beautifully.

Erick
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Erick Herring, NeXT Campus Consultant - University of Texas at Arlington
email: herring@evax.uta.edu
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise specified, none of the above reflects the
policies of NeXT Computer, Inc.  Likewise, the above does not commit
NeXT to any specific course of action nor can anything I say be
construed as binding on NeXT.  All opinions are my own.