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- From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
- Subject: Re: 100 Mips Intel NeXT.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.165125.4207@cubetech.com>
- Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec12.023530.11426@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec13.032244.6133@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Dec13.052608.17922@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:51:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec13.052608.17922@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec13.032244.6133@fcom.cc.utah.edu> yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang/Humanities) writes:
- >>As far as why they would port NeXTSTEP to Pentium rather than to sexy
- > ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
- >
- > And that was *exactly* the right thing for them to do.
- > But releasing software for a hardware platform is not necessarily
- > tied to NeXT releasing the hardware platform themselves.
- >
- > Point: There is no way that NeXT can compete in the
- > Intel based PC market. I would be surprised if they
- > could offer prices competitive with the systems IBM
- > and compaq are shipping these days, let alone the
- > Death Clones (tm) coming in from everywhere.
-
- They wouldn't be competing with clones. A NeXT box based on Pentium
- would be very different from a Pentium PC. Just as Amigas,
- Macintoshes, and NeXT's are all different. Sequent and Scitex put out
- boxes with 486's in them and they don't compete at all with PC's.
-
- There's way more to a machine than a chip.
-
-
- andrew
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