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Yamanari writes
> 	On a different note (that is, somethign other than NS486), 
> 	has anyone considered that NeXT ought to do a quickie port
> 	of NS486 to the Amiga (the A4000 is 68040, and there are
> 	a number of 68040 A3000's...) and to the Mac (the 
> 	Quads).. 

If NeXT wants to make money, I would think they'd stay far away from porting to  
just any platform.  Ease of porting doesn't necessarily it would be a good port  
to do.

For the Amiga and Atari markets, piracy is rampant.  Unless there's a hardware  
dongle or board necessary to run it, chances are the number of people that have  
illegal copies of the software will far outnumber the people who bought the  
software and the number of people who bought the software will not be enough to  
cover the cost involved in porting the software.  Even if there were no piracy  
at all on either platform, I doubt many people in the Amiga and Atari markets  
would be willing to spend the money that NeXT would need to justify porting to  
a platform where there are relatively few professionals where money is no  
object.  Both of these platforms are mainly composed of young people that don't  
have much money to spend on computers in the first place.

Given that a top-of-the-line Mac equipped with what a top-of-the-line NeXT  
offers would be in the same ballpark price range as the top-of-the-line NeXT,  
why not just buy the NeXT to start with?  Also, since Quadra machines don't  
compose the majority of the Mac market, yet these machines would probably be  
the ones targeted by a NeXTSTEP/Mac, I don't think it would be very wise to  
pursue such a thing.
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