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From: aozer@next.com (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: IBM to offer NeXTStep on AIX
Message-ID: <108@next.com>
Date: 7 Feb 90 17:31:46 GMT
References: <C2z;gk2@cs.psu.edu> <1990Feb6.164710.8086@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: Ali_Ozer@next.com (Ali Ozer)
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
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In article <1990Feb6.164710.8086@agate.berkeley.edu> Leo Pereira writes:
>While I was at Uniforum, I spent some time talking to an IBM systems
>engineer ... 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.

AIX NextStep uses Objective-C; examples from /NextDeveloper/Examples
(for instance Draw, Yap, CompositeLab, and most others that don't use
the Music or SoundKits) compile and run under IBM's NextStep without changing 
a single line of code.

Ali