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In article <1992Sep26.221759.275@nimno.wpa.com> john@wpa.com (John Bartley) writes:
>
>NeXTSTEP 486 was on display (once again) at the Seybold show in San  
>Francisco this week. I had been reading the discussion on the net about  
>Windows capability in NS486. So, just to see what the NeXT rep giving  
>the demo would say, I asked if NS486 could run Windows apps. The reply?  
>"No." "Will it be able to," I asked. "No." 
>
>I don't think that he gave the correct answer, and I wonder why he was  
>being so coy. This seems like such an obvious thing - it seems pretty  
>ludicrous to suggest running a PC emulator on a real PC in order to run  
>Windows.
>

When I was at NeXT Expo back in January I asked a salesman who was demoing
NS486 the same question. He seemed surprised and said something along the
lines of "Gee that's a good question, I hadn't thought about that - I don't
know". He didn't seem to be joking either.

It's a lot of work to supply DOS and Windows capability for NS486, and it's
my guess that it's too much for NeXT. We'll probably have to buy a special
new version of SoftPC. That's why NeXT can promise that the ability to
run Windows programs will be there, but become coy on details.

Dave Griffiths