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4 total messages Started by james dehnert Wed, 06 Jan 1993 03:56

#4709

Author: james dehnert
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 03:56

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  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,

"Next Computer will be porting NextStep to several RISC platforms, company  
officals have confirmed."

"SPARC, Hewlet-Packard's PA-RISC, Digital Equipment Corp.'s Alpha APX and  
PowerPC...are the leading contenders"

"Despite its new strategy, Bachman* insists Next won't get out of the hardware  
business and will build workstations this year based on an as-yet-unrevealed  
RISC platfirm.  Upgrades of existing Motorola 68040-based hardware also will be  
offered in 1993, he said"

"  ..he did rule out the Motorola 88000."

*Brett Bachman, Next director of software marketing.  He is quoted many times.

  Take this for what it's worth, but it's encouraging to me.

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

#4713

Author: Lee Sailer
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 14:48

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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?
-- 
Lee Sailer

					- Let's leave my employer
					  out of this, OK?

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

#4715

Author: Reuven M. Lerner
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 15:16

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>>>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:48:22 GMT, sailer@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Lee Sailer) said:

  Lee> Let's take HP's chip, just for example.  It seems to me that
  Lee> there are two ways NeXT could go.  (1) They could port
  Lee> Mach/NeXTstep to HP hardware, or (2) they could incorporate an
  Lee> HP cpu into NeXT hardware.

  Lee> Which is more likely?

According to the lead business story in today's New York Times
("Hewlett and Next Hold Talks"), both are quite possible. The article
said that HP and NeXT are looking into letting NeXT use HP's PA-RISC
chips, letting HP use NeXTSTEP, and allowing HP to purchase a share of
NeXT. It's unclear from the article where negotiations stand, but it
did say that an announcement could come as soon as this week.

Reuven

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

#4718

Author: Reuven M. Lerner
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 15:25

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>>>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:16:48 GMT, I said:

  Reuven> [The NYT article] did say that an announcement could come as
  Reuven> soon as this week.

Oops! I meant "this month."

Reuven

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