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tlc@cx5.com wrote:
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: The reason I was asking if software running on an 040-cube would run on the  
: upcoming NeXT RISC-based workstation was for two reasons: 

[chomp]
: 
: The several replies I got directly or saw posted confirmed my suspicion that  
: software compiled to run on 040 machines will not run on RISC machines. Would  
: any developers out there care to comment on how they indend to deal  
: (financially) with this issue? For example, will you send out two versions in  
: the same packaging, offer a reasonable fee (say on the order of an "upgrade"  
: price) for purchasing both versions of the same package, or at the very least a  
: nominal charge for license-type use on two different machines?

Fat binaries (like those planned for NextStep 486) should solve your concern.
Basically the (incompatable) binaries are packaged together and NextStep
figures out which one to load. Developers will, as I understand the current
situation, be forced to compile on each native system (no cross compilers
will be available for the 486).

BTW I have no inside knowledge of the brick, the nitro or whatever other
speculations which have appeared on the net recently. Of course I hope
that they are all true :).
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