Re: Unix OS's and GUI's.

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From: Ravi Krishna Swamy
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 16:32

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In article <40ld8g$9rl@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> buzz@marvin.isdn.cs.TU-Berlin.DE (Bastian Schlueter) writes:
>nfn02103@naples.net (Ashley W. Campbell) wrote:
>> In article <40jne7$nge@wizard.uark.edu>, jdjohnso@comp.uark.edu (Josh
>> Johnson) wrote:
>
>> >    If you want a kick ass GUI and the power of UNIX take a look at NeXTStep.
>> > Student price is $299 for the OS and the developers tools ($2500 retail).
>> > 
>> > Josh
>
>> forgive my ignorance, but on what hardware does NeXTStep run? I know it
>> runs on NeXT boxes, but will it run on Intel?
>
>Yes, NEXTSTEP runs on Intel PCs, HPPA, and SPARC(4,5,10,20) and of course 
>NeXTstations and  NeXTCubes.

Not only that, but NeXTSTEP has a "multiple arch. binary format."  Basically
you can have one program that will run on any Nextstep architecture.
I think you can select which one you want when you install so you'll
save hard drive space but its still a nice feature.  It would be nice
if Solaris/SPARC software developers ported to Solaris x86 so that I
could run their stupid programs.  If they automatically generated
binaries for both versions (as well as Solaris/PowerPC) then I
wouldn't be complaining about the lack of Solaris x86 software...

Ravi

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Subject: Re: Unix OS's and GUI's.
Date: 14 Aug 1995 16:32:54 GMT
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