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Darcy Brockbank wrote....

| I think though that the future of Microsoft isn't the
| "environment" of Windows2.0 but Windows NT, which will be
| in the range of $600.
|
| That compares nicely with $999 for NeXTstep 486. With the SDKs
| for NT, and the extended release of NeXTstep 486, we'll see prices
| climb steeply, but I think they'll be in the same range.

I think you make a very good point here, Darcy.  Windows
NT is (from what I understand) not aimed at the person
who has a single low-scale 2/386 in the basement running
some lightweight software.  It has been publically announded
that NT will require 8 Mb of RAM and >= 386 to run.

I agree; that would put NT at the "higher end" (whatever
that means) of the OS scale.  My question is: "Is NeXT always
going to market exclusively at the higher end, or are they
going to try to put NeXTstep on everyone's machine?"

I think that NeXTstep is a truly beautiful interface.  I 
always have, ever since I ran v. 0.9.  But I think that
NeXT's supposed "break" into the Intel world will be far
from successful with regard to sales, both because of the
system requirements and because of the price (both of
these were a disappointment to me).

I realize that Windows 3.x and NeXTstep are worlds apart with
regard to what they try to accomplish, but Windows is cheap,
easy to aquire, and runs on just about everything.  Who knows,
though, maybe someday we'll see something like a scaled-down
NeXTstep; perhaps "NS-light?"

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