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- From: ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu (Ernest Prabhakar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy
- Subject: Re: NeXT announces ports to RISC environments
- Message-ID: <1if6ohINNptc@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 18:00:49 GMT
- References: <marcos-060193074619@pmarcos.kaleida.com>
- Reply-To: ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu (Ernest Prabhakar)
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- In article <marcos-060193074619@pmarcos.kaleida.com> marcos@kaleida.com (Paul
- Marcos) writes:
- > In article <93006.003117U54876@uicvm.uic.edu>, U54876@uicvm.uic.edu wrote:
- > >
- > > Haven't read it myself, but I was relayed the information that Jobs was
- > > demoing a PowerPC NeXT box this week.
- >
- > I'd find that hard to believe seeing as key developers were rumored to get
- > prototype PowerPC boards just a coupld weeks ago. Either NeXT has it's
- > porting strategy down pat (and will blow us away in '93 with a zillion
- > ports:) or it's just hot air.
-
- Well, I believe that *manufactures* had shipments of the PowerPC much earlier,
- and I have confirmed reports of there being a PowerPC NeXT box (though I hadn't
- heard it was publicly seen). The similarity to the 88110 bodes in its favor.
- Due to Mach and the FSF, it's fairly easy to get *something* running on a new
- box. It's getting -everything- to work -reliably- that takes up all the time.
-
- - Ernie P.
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- Ernest N. Prabhakar Caltech High Energy Physics
- Member, League for Programming Freedom (league@prep.ai.mit.edu)
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