home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!alberta!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!cuugnet!wilcoxt
- From: wilcoxt@cuug.ab.ca (Terrance Wilcox 229-3361)
- Subject: Re: the REAL problem is...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.205857.15431@cuug.ab.ca>
- Sender: news@cuug.ab.ca (Network News Reader)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: sun.cuug.ab.ca
- Organization: Calgary UNIX User's Group
- References: <BzLJvs.Jn2@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <Bzo9Gs.721@netnews.jhuapl.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:58:57 GMT
- Lines: 31
-
- In article <Bzo9Gs.721@netnews.jhuapl.edu> chuck@nighthawk.jhuapl.edu (Chuck Waltrip) writes:
- >
- > The market is available: port NeXTSTEP to NT and NeXTSTEP apps
- > can run alongside Windows. No worries about selling potential
- > users on an unknown OS. Let them keep their NT until they don't
- > need it anymore. Then the BBBs (beautiful black boxes) can move
- > in and the '86s can become historical relics along with IBM.
- >
- > But there's not much time folks. Lots of other folks with big
- > money have been working furiously on developing object-oriented
- > environments. NeXTSTEP is there for them to learn from and
- > improve upon. We need NeXTSTEP on NT as soon as NT is introduced.
- > Otherwise, Redwood City might as well be the Palo Alto Research
- > Center. (But it will have been fun while it lasted 8^}
- >
-
- Why should NeXT waste its time porting to NT? NT isn't even a microkernal.
- Contrary to what NT promoters think, there's no Mach in NT. Check out
- comp.os.mach. In any event, it's Windows. People will buy Windows NT,
- not NeXTSTEP NT. People need that Windows buzzword, not the NT bit.
-
- NeXT is better off spending its time and money on hardware ports (eg 486)
- instead of re-doing the entire OS just so it's DOS compatible.
-
- All of the 'other folks with big money' are going to Mach. AIX and OS/2
- are moving to Mach, not NT. Cairo, Microsoft's OO-thing, is years away.
- Why would anyone want NeXT to abandon what it has to go back a generation
- to NT?
-
- Terry Wilcox
-
-