Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple supporting the Apple // line Message-ID: <8809230117.aa23269@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 23 Sep 88 06:07:53 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 >I hear the NeXT machine is supposed to run Mac software... > >UUCP: {rosevax, crash}!orbit!pnet51!shawn >INET: shawn@pnet51.cts.com Not very likely. The NeXt operating system is Mach (a Unix variate). The Windowing protocol is X-Window's and the display graphics will be Display Postscript. It'll look very "Mac-like." Probably A/Ux applications can be ported fairly readily. To the extent that future Macware will be designed to run under EITHER A/Ux or the native Mac Operating system, you might expect to find the many Mac programs available in NeXt versions (or NeXt programs in A/Ux versions, I suppose). Murph Sewall Sewall@UCONNVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {rutgers psuvax1 ucbvax & in Europe - mcvax} !UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] -+- My employer isn't responsible for my mistakes AND vice-versa! (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) "We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo (Walt Kelly)