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From: walters@chance.uucp (Chris Walters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: IBM Announces NextStep
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Date: 7 Feb 90 13:00:07 GMT
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In article <C==k0o2@cs.psu.edu> melling@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu 
(Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>
>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

I also heard IBM uses C++, not ObjC.  Anyone know for sure?  
  -- chris

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