Xref: utzoo comp.windows.news:1924 comp.windows.x:18474 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!snorkelwacker!spdcc!dyer From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: IBM announces NextStep on AIX, PS/2, RIOS, etc. Message-ID: <1683@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> Date: 15 Feb 90 03:48:33 GMT References: <10143@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA Lines: 16 In article ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Daniel Ehrlich) writes: >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. :-) IBM certainly did have NeXTStep running at UNIForum. If you walked too fast thru their booth you'd have missed it, because it had a smallish sign which advertised it as something like "Advanced User Interface Foobar" and didn't use the word NeXTStep at all. This was a few weeks before the announcement, you see. -- Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu