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From: ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NX_VOID, Release 2.1 and Lighthouse Design
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.200004.1042@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 91 20:00:04 GMT
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In article <1991Jun26.144145.11129@shaman.com> jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) writes:
>   Yes, I think the NeXT is *much* more stable between version releases
>than the Mac ever was. It also helps that the OS isn't going to change
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>much since it already has much of what we need. Only the appkit is going
>to change and NeXT has made it pretty apparent that things following the
>API will be backwardly supported at least one revision level.

I hope that this is not true.  I would like to see NeXT change from a
Mach 2.5 based kernel to a Mach 3.0 based kernel.  A Macintosh
emulator I'm working on would be much easier with some of the features
of Mach 3.0 available (mainly external pagers).

Of course, there's no reason that this change would have to break any
software that works under Mach 2.5.
-- 
Doug DeJulio
ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu