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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: End of NeXT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.144047.4289@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec23.010923.3689@mercury.cair.du.edu> <1992Dec23.051539.5455@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec24.211611.15877@cuug.ab.ca>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 14:40:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.211611.15877@cuug.ab.ca> wilcoxt@cuug.ab.ca (Terrance Wilcox 229-3361) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.051539.5455@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >>
- >> Pretty interesting considering NS486 is still vapor. Bout
- >> as realistic as Bill Gates giving a lecture on Microkernals
- >> based on his background in NT (which, so I've heard, is minimal).
- >>
- >Are you sure you mean vapor? There are developers out there with beta
- >copies.
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- You can *buy* NT _right now_ for $69. Call MS.
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- >People have seen demos.
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- I once saw a demo of a Mac clone backin '86.
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- >There are published hardware requirements
- >(sort of).
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- <sort of>?
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- >The only thing you can't do is go to the store and buy it.
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- Oops. Looks like NT is a little less vapor than NS486, then.
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- >I
- >think you're just a bit confused.
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- I think you're a bit misinformed.
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- >I doubt that anybody could lecture on microkernals based on their knowledge
- >of NT. NT isn't a microkernal.
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- Microkernel does not necessarily mean Mach. In any case, if
- it's not microkernel, well, tell that to the guys at MS
- who used to work on Mach for Carnegie Mellon.>
- >Terry Wilcox
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