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mmalcolm Crawford (m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk) wrote:
: Kevin Brown (kcbrown@starfruit.csd.sgi.com) wrote:

: >By the time PC-class
: >hardware was beefy enough to run NeXTStep, it was too late: Microsoft
: >had captured most of the market with Windows and managed to get it
: >past the point where compatibility is everything.
: >
: Umm, Sean Luke missed out on saying that "This is an odd observation from an
: SGI chap..."
: :-)

: What's interesting is that in the interim the rest of the Unix manufacturers
: had still not got their acts together to try to take on Micro$oft.  Now it
: appears that about the only chance many have of salvation-through-
: unification in the face of the Window$ onslaught is either NEXTSTEP running
: natively on their hardware (HP, Sun -- of course NEXTSTEP also runs on Intel
: PCs), or through implementations of OpenStep on their own OS (Sun, DEC --
: note of course that NeXT is also porting OpenStep to Window$95 and Window$
: NT).

: OK, so I exaggerate, but it's not clear to me how Unix will survive if it
: doesn't unite behind *something* in order to try to deliver on some of the
: promises of "Open systems" made a couple of years ago, and the best
: something that there is is NEXTSTEP, and fortunately it's in almost all the
: right places(*).  Now if only SGI would accept a port to their hardware (if
: only to keep Cambridge Animation happy! :-)

: (*) NeXT is placing bets on M$ too, though, as I mentioned above (OpenStep
: Window$95/NT)... this makes it a bit of a double-edged sword as far as the
: Unix manufacturers go, albeit a very sharp one!

: Have fun,

: mmalc.

yeah.. if anyone can afford the price of NEXTSTEP. Its a nice O/S but its 
way overpriced.