Re: Next computer

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From: Benjamin Chase
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 23:25

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In article <BBC.90Feb7154213@sicilia.rice.edu> I write:

> Does [Steve Jobs'] cozy relationship [with IBM] go any further than
> the deal involving the NeXT windowing system (what's it called,
> NeXT StEP)?  To me, that [deal] just looked like IBM being
> conservative, betting money on all the horses, so that it couldn't
> lose (not that it would really "win" either, but losing all the races
> you've bet on is no fun).

Weeeeellllll, I just read on comp.sys.next that two days ago IBM
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.

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	Ben Chase <bbc@rice.edu>, Rice University, Houston, Texas

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