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From: ca@cbnewsi.ATT.COM (christopher.arnone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next computer
Summary: IBM and Motif
Message-ID: <1866@cbnewsi.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Feb 90 19:37:01 GMT
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> 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.

Unless I misunderstood, isn't Motif running on top of X (just like Open Look
on the Sun)?  Or did IBM do something different here.  In the NY Times today,
Steve Jobs praised the new IBM hardware as "worth the wait".