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Re: Info in Open Systems Today ( NeXTSTEP ports!! )

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From: Dave Randall
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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