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Benito Horta (benny@shadow.net) wrote:

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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.

Wasn't Motif supposed to solve all of these "unite behind something"
problems.
-- 
Carl S. Shapiro
cs@cloud9.net <NeXTmail okay>