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From: melling@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: IBM Announces NextStep
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Date: 7 Feb 90 01:59:10 GMT
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In-Reply-To: rock@lighthouse.com's message of 6 Feb 90 18:13:47 GMT


In article <1990Feb6.181347.4457@lighthouse.com> rock@lighthouse.com writes:

   The announcement of NextStep on the PS/2 is really significant.  If
   all goes well, this means there will be rather many more Next-
   compatible machines in the world.  

   Roger Rosner
   Lighthouse Design, Ltd.
   NeXT Mail: rock@lighthouse.com or ...!uunet!lighthouse!rock



How compatible will these machines be?  I've heard that software that runs
on the IBM machines with NextStep will still need a major rewrite to run
on the Next.

-Mike