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From: gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXt Performance/Price
Message-ID: <12670021@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 89 22:44:05 GMT
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/ comp.sys.next / jgreely@previous.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) / Apr 13, 1989 /
>The only things that would be at
>all bothered are applications distributed as binaries, and porting is
>simply a matter of recompiling (identical OS, identical compilers,
>identical environment, *poof*).

I've compiled some software on the NeXT with machine definition set to
"VAX" and OS definition set to "4.3BSD", and it worked with no problems at
all. (The next things I would have tried was "Sun-3" and "SunOS 3".)

Jacob Gore				Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{oddjob,chinet,att}!nucsrl!gore