🚀 go-pugleaf

Virtual Dave writes
> 
> Hi,
> I once heard someone say you could run NeXTStep on an IBM RS/6000
> workstation because they both use the Mach kernal. I called
> all over the country talking to NeXT and IBM, and no one seems
> to have a definitive answer. Finally someone in Cambridge suggested
> I ask on the net. He mentioned Carnegie Mellon in particular. 
> 

The tail I heard from an IBM Sales Engineer was that NS1.0 was indeed  
ported over.  However they weren't using a kernel that implemented  
threads, so what Next did with threads had to be done with separate  
processes.  So what had been done with shared memory in threads had to  
be done with inter-process communication with processes.  This  
apparently is a much slower way to do anything.

I'm no kernel guru, so I may have munged the details.

Anyway, NS1.0 even on their flagship systems apparently was a real dog,  
making even X-Windows/motif look spritely by comparison.


But I tell you: If Next offered a complete op system for IBM RS6000's   
I'd have a P.O. faxed to them as fast as I could get my bosses  
signature.