Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!riki.berkeley.edu!leo From: leo@riki.berkeley.edu (Leo Pereira) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: IBM to offer NeXTStep on AIX Message-ID: <1990Feb6.164710.8086@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 6 Feb 90 16:47:10 GMT References: Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator;;;;ZU44) Reply-To: leo@riki.berkeley.edu (Leo Pereira) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 30 In article grio@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Daniel L. Grillo) writes: > >IBM TO OFFER NEXTSTEP ON AIX WORKSTATIONS > > NEW YORK, February 5, 1990 . . . IBM and NeXT, Inc. today >announced that IBM plans to offer NextStep on AIX. IBM's NextStep >offering will provide AIX users with a major new application environment >for enhanced business and professional productivity. >can offer applications on both machines, resulting in a larger market for >their efforts. >-- >Dan Grillo grio@cs.psu.edu While I was at Uniforum, I spent some time talking to an IBM systems engineer about Nextstep running under AIX. Some of the conversation was rather amusing: "When will AIX be released?" "Hemm . . . well, we really can't say exactly . . ." and some was quite interesting. He said that the AIX running Nextstep did not use objective C but rather C++. That would lead to difficulties in porting applications from one platform to another. Certainly not the one day that Steve Jobs claimed in his interview. It was kinda bizarre to see Nextstep running on a machine NOT jet black and sleek looking. -Leo Pereira Project: To make stupid people suffer.