Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!brazos.rice.edu!bbc From: bbc@sicilia.rice.edu (Benjamin Chase) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Next computer Message-ID: Date: 7 Feb 90 23:25:32 GMT References: <8859@portia.Stanford.EDU< <7341@pdn.paradyne.com> Sender: root@rice.edu Reply-To: Benjamin Chase Followup-To: comp.sys.next Distribution: usa Organization: CRPC, Rice University Lines: 18 In-reply-to: bbc@sicilia.rice.edu's message of 7 Feb 90 21:42:13 GMT In article I write: > Does [Steve Jobs'] cozy relationship [with IBM] go any further than > the deal involving the NeXT windowing system (what's it called, > NeXT StEP)? To me, that [deal] just looked like IBM being > conservative, betting money on all the horses, so that it couldn't > lose (not that it would really "win" either, but losing all the races > you've bet on is no fun). Weeeeellllll, I just read on comp.sys.next that two days ago IBM announced they will support NeXTStEP on their AIX machines. Talk about timing. Apparently IBM has decided that nExTsTeP, along with OSF/Motif, will win, place, or show, and that the X Window System will not pay, at least on IBM hardware. [Followup-to: comp.sys.next] -- Ben Chase , Rice University, Houston, Texas