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From: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NX_VOID, Release 2.1 and Lighthouse Design
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.030657.2164@shaman.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 03:06:57 GMT
References: <1991Jun26.200004.1042@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu>
Sender: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura)
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In article <1991Jun26.200004.1042@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu>  
ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) writes:
> 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.

    As you guessed, I meant OS API.  There aren't going to be great
innovations like Mac System 6-->7 or other things since Mach is a 
pretty mature product.
    I too would like to see Mach 3.0 on the NeXT. I guess NeXT is 
trailing Mach a couple of steps to be on the safe side. After all,
they have Avie on their team, so it isn't because they are incompetent.

   - jiro
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