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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news,comp.windows.x
Subject: IBM announces NextStep on AIX, PS/2, RIOS, etc.
Message-ID: <10143@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 9 Feb 90 11:11:03 GMT
Organization: Grasshopper Group in San Francisco
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Well, IBM has thrown its predictable monkey wrench into the X & Motif
machinery.  Did those OSF folks really believe IBM was coming in to
promote open systems?  No, they wanted to *appear* to be switching, so
that both that appearance and their later "turnaround" would sow
their traditional Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.

Note that IBM is rumored to have licensed Display PostScript from
Adobe for running NextStep.

Let's see if it turns any heads.  Not that the NeWS camp is poised to
take advantage of good news if it showed up...

Check comp.sys.next, which is full of press releases, rumor, and talk
about this.

	John
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