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- Subject: Re: NeXT vs Mac, Whats the difference?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.100303.457@otago.ac.nz>
- From: athomson@otago.ac.nz (Alastair Thomson)
- Date: 24 Dec 92 10:03:03 +1300
- References: <1992Dec22.162810.451@otago.ac.nz> <1992Dec22.142201.17973@wam.umd.edu>
- Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- >
- > Has anyone got the low down on whether the release
- > shrinkwrap ~$900 version of NS486 will include these tools,
- > or will you have to buy the $2200 developer version?
- >
- > I hope it'll be in the release version. At $900, it's sure
- > to have a hard time--at $2200 it's sureto be a failure.
-
- From what my contacts at NeXT will tell me (Which isn't much!) you will have to
- spend $2,200. But as my main point in the original post was, IMHO NeXT are *not*
- aiming NS486 at the small user, it is aimed at corporates, notably those that
- may use Win NT. NT certainly ins't aimed at small time users.
- >
- >
- >>2. I will soon be able to run my NeXTstep apps on a PC system with NS486.
- >
- >
- > Believe it when you see it. NS486, sure--but will NS486 run
- > DOS and win apps? At this point, who knows?
- >
- The point is Fat Binaries, most current NeXT developers are going to do the
- relatively trivial job of moving to NS486.
-
- As far as DOS and Windoze support goes, NeXT own FAQ says that it will, but
- that they haven't decided how to package it. My guess is that it will be an add
- on. It will however run Windoze apps at the same speed or faster! (or so they
- say!) as Windoze does it self. They have apparently implemented the GDI
- directly for it rather than running thru DPS.
- >
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