Macs running NeXT Step?

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2 total messages Started by John G Shirlaw Fri, 17 Apr 1992 05:27

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Author: John G Shirlaw
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 05:27

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Question:

Given that after the PC the Mac must have one of the largest shares of the market.
is NeXTs move likely to be to create a version of NeXT Step that runs on the Mac?

Any one want to comment on how easy/dificult this would be to impliment?

john.

Ps. personnaly I would love to see NeXT Step on one of the power books!  though
I'm not sure I would want to do anything on them given that they are only 030's
at the best.

As Steve jobs said the thing NeXT customers want are: A Fast chip, Lots of
memory, A big screen and large amounts of disk space.  All of which consume large
amounts of Watts and are therefore contry to the key principle in implimenting 
a portable which is to use low power devices.

Re: Macs running NeXT Step?

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Author: Michael D Mellinger
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 06:22

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In article <1992Apr17.052745.25088@athena.mit.edu> jgshir@athena.mit.edu (John G Shirlaw) writes:


   Given that after the PC the Mac must have one of the largest shares
   of the market.  is NeXTs move likely to be to create a version of
   NeXT Step that runs on the Mac?

   Any one want to comment on how easy/dificult this would be to
   impliment?

NeXTstep will never run on 99.98% of the PCs already in existance nor
will on anything less than a Mac Quadra.  The hardware requirements
for NeXTstep are just too great.

-Mike

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