Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!ukma!rutgers!pyrnj!dasys1!tbetz From: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: the price of the NeXT machine (was Re: NeXT) Summary: Yet Another Compatible OS Message-ID: <7003@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 17 Oct 88 20:18:47 GMT References: <5423@juniper.uucp> <3254@utastro.UUCP> Reply-To: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) Organization: Zen Community of New York Lines: 27 Quoth werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) in <3254@utastro.UUCP>: |In article , bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes: | | fortunately, whereas you couldn't have sold a 128/512k Mac without | a hard-disk or letter-quality printer to a businessman or professional, | the NeXT machine has enough power to be useful to most anyone. | so, given that they were smart enough not to try for another | incompatible operating system, the NeXT-machine has a good chance | to survive (a few years, at least) IFF the company can get into | the black before it runs out of money ... I wish them well. | Uh, Mach is a >very< compatible operating system, to judge by the comments I've heard from those who use it. Any Unix source pretty much compiles on Mach unchanged. Could be the very key to NeXT's success... even without all the bells and whistles, almost everything out there that runs on Unix will directly port to Mach. -- MY CURRENT FAVORITE ADVERTISING LINES: |Tom Betz EAA#48267 "Look what they done to old Duke! |ZCNY, Yonkers, NY 10701-2509 Next year I'm plantin' corn." |UUCP: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP or "It's not >that< crazy! Rosemary..." | ...!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tbetz