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From: andrew
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 19:41

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In article <1992Nov8.210118.12604@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
>In article <BxEyK2.G5E@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
>>If NeXT wants to make money, I would think they'd stay far away from porting 
>>just any platform.  Ease of porting doesn't necessarily it would be a good  
>>port to do.
>
>
>	It cannot _hurt_ NeXT to have the software available.  The 
>	Mac port would be, essentially, a recompile with some work
>	to handle IO (hd, video, mouse, kbd..).. The basic OS would 
>	remain essentially unchanged.  Not a huge investment.

I would bet that you have never written a low-level device driver.  In
any event, cost time and resources aside, NeXTSTEP on a Quadra would
be a doug due to video bandwidth.  NuBus is way too slow for
NeXTSTEP's video demands.


andrew

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