Re: IBM's Next User Interfcae

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From: Mike Clarkson
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1988 00:26

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In article <417@nikhefk.UUCP>, paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar) writes:
> A recent usenet posting stated that IBM payed $10 million for the use
> of the user interface developed by NeXt.
> 
> It aroused a lot of curiosity at my end. For what machines does IBM
> need this user interface? It has the Presentation Manager for OS/2? Right?

Just speculation, but maybe they're hedging their bets:

	Maybe Apple will win the lawsuit against MSWindows,

	Maybe Apple the lawsuit against MSWindows will scare people
away from developing 3rd party applications for it.

	Maybe the NeXT machine will really take off, especially
if they've integrated X-Windows with Display Postscript.  This
could become a dominat window system.

	Maybe the NeXT inteface is just that much better.

We'll see more on Oct 12.


Mike Clarkson					mike@ists.UUCP
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