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- From: randall@redfish.atmos.colostate.edu (Dave Randall)
- Subject: Re: Info in Open Systems Today ( NeXTSTEP ports!! )
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- Message-ID: <Jan06.153100.46355@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 15:31:00 GMT
- Reply-To: sh.atmos.colostate.edu (Dave Randall)
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- In article <C0Ft4n.5BK@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> sailer@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Lee
- Sailer) writes:
- > james dehnert (zeke@znext) wrote:
- > : In the Jan 4 issue of Open Systems Today on page 3 ( :-O ) is an article
- that
- > : says NeXT plans to port NeXTSTEP to a number of platforms. I'll paraphrase
- the
- > : good bits,
- > :
- > I have a generic question about this, should it ever happen 8-)
- >
- > Let's take HP's chip, just for example. It seems to me that there are two
- > ways NeXT could go. (1) They could port Mach/NeXTstep to HP hardware, or
- > (2) they could incorporate an HP cpu into NeXT hardware.
- >
- > Which is more likely? What are the advantages and disadvantages of
- > each?
- > --
- In order to do (2), you have to do (1). I think they are doing both, in the
- case of HP. For sparc and the others, probably only (1).
-