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From: steve@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Steve DeJarnett)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The NeXT Problem
Message-ID: <4693@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 16 Oct 88 21:16:51 GMT
References: <26435@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: steve@polyslo.UUCP (Steve DeJarnett)
Organization: Lab Rat Rumpus Room -- Cal Poly SLO
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In article <26435@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> pchris@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Chris Perleberg) writes:
>It seems that the NeXT machine may have a few problems:
>3) Non-Standard Software: What software company would develop software for
>   the special features of just one computer (NeXT Step)?  How many copies of 
>   this software can they possibly sell?

	Well, given that IBM has bought some of the User Interface technology
from NeXT (licensed it, I guess is actually the case), if IBM ever makes use
of it, you will probably find quite a few developers willing to write programs
to work under this environment (of course, if IBM is buying this to keep NeXT
from making it (i.e. they won't do anything with it, and NeXT will flounder and
die due to no software available for their machine), then NeXT may be short-
lived).  

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