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In article <447bbc$gfo@bud.shadow.net>, benny@shadow.net says...
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>mmalcolm Crawford (m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk) wrote:
>: Kevin Brown (kcbrown@starfruit.csd.sgi.com) wrote:
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>: >By the time PC-class
>: >hardware was beefy enough to run NeXTStep, it was too late: Microsoft
>: >had captured most of the market with Windows and managed to get it
>: >past the point where compatibility is everything.
>: >
>: Umm, Sean Luke missed out on saying that "This is an odd observation from 
an
>: SGI chap..."
>: :-)
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>: What's interesting is that in the interim the rest of the Unix 
manufacturers
>: had still not got their acts together to try to take on Micro$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).
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>: 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!
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>: Have fun,
>
>: mmalc.
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>yeah.. if anyone can afford the price of NEXTSTEP. Its a nice O/S but its 
>way overpriced.
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Compared to what? Warp or 95? Sure. Compared to other commercial-grade
UNIX or other operating systems? Not really. In the same ballpark as
NT for pricing ($795 for NS vs. about $350 or so for NT). And NS never
has been for the kid who buys his OS at best buy for $79.99, but rather
for the kind of corporations that don't blink at what NS costs.

Of the people who aren't using NeXTSTEP, I'd guess there is a very small
minority who want it but can't afford it. Most people have never seen it,
or refuse to abandon their beloved Windows for (*gasp*) something different.