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Article #4722Re: Info in Open Systems Today ( NeXTSTEP ports!! )
From: Dave Randall
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 15:31
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 15:31
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In article <C0Ft4n.5BK@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> sailer@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Lee Sailer) writes: > james dehnert (zeke@znext) wrote: > : In the Jan 4 issue of Open Systems Today on page 3 ( :-O ) is an article that > : says NeXT plans to port NeXTSTEP to a number of platforms. I'll paraphrase the > : good bits, > : > I have a generic question about this, should it ever happen 8-) > > Let's take HP's chip, just for example. It seems to me that there are two > ways NeXT could go. (1) They could port Mach/NeXTstep to HP hardware, or > (2) they could incorporate an HP cpu into NeXT hardware. > > Which is more likely? What are the advantages and disadvantages of > each? > -- In order to do (2), you have to do (1). I think they are doing both, in the case of HP. For sparc and the others, probably only (1).
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!purdue!yuma!news From: randall@redfish.atmos.colostate.edu (Dave Randall) Subject: Re: Info in Open Systems Today ( NeXTSTEP ports!! ) Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account) Message-ID: <Jan06.153100.46355@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 15:31:00 GMT Reply-To: sh.atmos.colostate.edu (Dave Randall) References: <C0Ft4n.5BK@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: redfish.atmos.colostate.edu Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Lines: 20