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In article <2062@ltb.ltb.bso.nl> wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) writes:
>In <prqffd8@zola.esd.sgi.com> portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes:
> >I find it interesting that in this thread (and in the
> >other which was comparing NeXTStep to Windows NT), that
> >the same people who were quick to label NT "vaporware"
> >seem to overlook that fact that NS 486 is equally
> >vaporous, even more so since NeXT is not making
> >NS 486 developers kits available for $69.

> Technically NeXT doesn't need to, since developing an App on the NeXT will
> make it run on NS 486. I can develop on my NeXT and run on NS 486. Fat
> binaries, remember? If 3.0 is already equipped with fat binaries, I don;t
> think so, but NS 486 will probably be 3.1 anyway.

Ah. But technically Microsoft doesn't need to release NT either since
developing for Windows 3.1 is also the same as developing for Windows NT. 

> The whole $69 devkit from NT is a very shrewd sales move. Instant market
> share 
> (look how many copies of NT I have sold....).

Maybe so. But which is the bigger company?? :=) :=)

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