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From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Questions about NeXT (anyone from NeXT care to comment?)
Message-ID: <7464@potomac.ads.com>
Date: 21 Dec 88 22:54:20 GMT
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Arlington VA
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I wonder...

Does Steve Jobs have any plans to open up the NeXT box by distributing
the source code for NeXT's release of Mach?  Or the 4.3 BSD layer?
This leads us into the question of licencing and who will be able to
see/modify the source code...

Will it one day be possible to port GNU OS to the NeXT?  I distrust
any machine that I can't get into the guts of and fix (note the
current problems sites are having with Sun OS).  Which leads to the
question of....

What sort of support is or will be available for the NeXT?  So-called
"depot" maintenance?  Full service contracts?  What sort of mechanisms
will be used to maintain hardware and software?  Hardware support
might be board-level replacements on NeXT thanks to their automated
factory.

When will colour be available and in what form?  Will I be able to
just plug a colour card into an already existing b&w NeXT computer?
How upgradable is NeXT?  I don't want to buy a new NeXT every other
year.

Will NeXT one day support an analog to digital sound card with the
same resolution that NeXT is able to generate?  A DSP-based card of
some kind.  generating high-wuality sound is fine but I also want to
sample sounds of high quality.



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