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From: soupigf@enterprise.america.com (Matthew Gabriel)
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> 	NeXT is a company founded by Steve Jobs, they guy who co-founded 
> Apple computers, and invented the Mac. NeXT was originally in the 
> business of making 68030 based workstations that everyone seemed to think 
> were personal computers. This error was due in large part to the 
> astounding array of innovative hardware peripherals available for the 
> system, but in even larger part to the remarkably easy to use interface. 
> Since the NeXTStations were priced competitively with other workstations, 
> the PC users couldn't afford them, and the workstation crowd just never 
> clued in that this was a powerful Unix system.

Actually, what killed NextStations was the fact that they were overpriced,
due to that 'astounding array of innovative hardware'.  They were far more
expensive than other workstations based on the same processor, or less
powerful than similarly priced workstations, depending on how you looked at
it.  Not everyone needs built in digital signal processing (a standard
feature on NextStations).

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> This is due in large part to 
> the fact it is based on the Mach Unix kernel from IBM, and incorporates 
> all the nice features you expect from Unix.

Mach is not a Unix kernel.  It is a microkernel, on top of which Unix servers
can be built.  It was originally developed at CMU, with newer versions being
developed by U of Utah, and OSF.  IBM is using their own version of Mach as
a microkernel for OS/2 PPC (but not OS/2 Intel), and there had been also been
discussion of other 'personalities', such as AIX, but the multiple
personalities project has been scrapped.

 
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