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In article <1992Dec13.052608.17922@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
>In article <1992Dec13.032244.6133@fcom.cc.utah.edu> yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang/Humanities) writes:
>>As far as why they would port NeXTSTEP to Pentium rather than to sexy
>			  ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
>
>	And that was *exactly* the right thing for them to do.  
>	But releasing software for a hardware platform is not necessarily
>	tied to NeXT releasing the hardware platform themselves.
>
>	Point:  There is no way that NeXT can compete in the 	
>	Intel based PC market.  I would be surprised if they 	
>	could offer prices competitive with the systems IBM 
>	and compaq are shipping these days, let alone the
>	Death Clones (tm) coming in from everywhere.

They wouldn't be competing with clones.  A NeXT box based on Pentium
would be very different from a Pentium PC.  Just as Amigas,
Macintoshes, and NeXT's are all different.  Sequent and Scitex put out
boxes with 486's in them and they don't compete at all with PC's.

There's way more to a machine than a chip.


andrew
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