Xref: utzoo comp.windows.news:1920 comp.windows.x:18435 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dino!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!news From: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Daniel Ehrlich) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: IBM announces NextStep on AIX, PS/2, RIOS, etc. Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 90 20:23:21 GMT References: <10143@hoptoad.uucp> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Computer Science Department, Penn State University Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: gnu@hoptoad.uucp's message of 9 Feb 90 11:11:03 GMT In article <10143@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: John> Well, IBM has thrown its predictable monkey wrench into the X & Motif John> machinery. Did those OSF folks really believe IBM was coming in to John> promote open systems? No, they wanted to *appear* to be switching, so John> that both that appearance and their later "turnaround" would sow John> their traditional Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. John> Note that IBM is rumored to have licensed Display PostScript from John> Adobe for running NextStep. John> Let's see if it turns any heads. Not that the NeWS camp is poised to John> take advantage of good news if it showed up... John> Check comp.sys.next, which is full of press releases, rumor, and talk John> about this. IBM had an RT running NeXTStep at the Baltimore USENIX last summer. It was very slow and crashed a lot. They did not have anything running NeXTStep at the UNIFORUM in Washington, and then they make this announcement. One might conclude that some divisions in IBM do not talk to each other. :-) -- Dan Ehrlich Voice: +1 814 863 1142 FAX: +1 814 865 3176