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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT alternatives
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Date: 30 Mar 89 15:54:28 GMT
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In article <245300010@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

>Don't you mean an existing OS? It should port easily to a Sun3 or 
>a Mac II raw hardware.

*** Rumor on ***

NeXT has had their own hardware since last fall.  They've been developing
software for a lot longer than that.  I think that makes it quite clear
just how portable the software must be.

And did you ever wonder why software for the "special goodies" on the NeXT,
like the DSP and the sound has been a little slow coming?  Maybe because
that's the only part of the software they had a hard time writing on another
piece of hardware.

*** Rumor off ***

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