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- From: tjhendry@queen.mcs.drexel.edu (Jonathan Hendry)
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- Subject: Re: Power PC/68060/Taligent/Windows NT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.142005.19516@netnews.noc.drexel.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 14:20:05 GMT
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- HK.MLR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark Rogowsky) writes:
- : In article <1993Jan21.024645.18182@bilby.cs.uwa.edu.au>,
- : Quinn <quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au> writes:
- <munch>
- : >
- : >Taligent's Pink on the other hand may well be exciting. From what
- : >I understand it has been design (like the Mac) from the user interface
- : >down (not from the hardware up like most OSes). Sure it has some
- : >sort of microkernal underneath but it's new and interesting. For
- : >example it's unlikely you'll get applications under Pink (certainly
- : >not in the classic Macintosh sense). Programs will come as objects
- : >that extend the basic user interface in a consists manner, telling
- : >the user interface how to deal with new forms of data.
- : >
- : Whoa! Nellie! Windows NT 3.1 (the first version for whatever reason)
- : is what you say but Microsoft is well on its way with Windows Cairo
- : (I think that's the development name of it anyway), a fully
- : object-oriented paradigm-shifting OS, like Taligent (I shan't call
- : it Pink, a silly development name that invokes images of bubble-gum
- : wads in my mind).
- :
-
- On the other hand, you can buy a NeXT today and have what Cairo and
- Pink will have in a few years. Oh, wait. Cairo and PInk will be first
- generation. NeXTSTEP is in it's third release, and gets better every time.
-
- Or, you can wait until June and buy NeXTSTEP '486. And maybe, by the
- end of the year, NeXTSTEP for Hewlett-Packard PA-Risc workstations.
- Or NeXT's Risc workstation which will hopefully be out this year.
- (And which may be based on the Power PC)
-
- Somebody'll probably mention that NeXTSTEP isn't "totally" object-oriented.
- To which which I say, I don't give a damn. The base operating system (MACH)
- has elements in it which lend themselves to "object-oriented-ness."
-
-
- --
- Jonathan W. Hendry
- Drexel University College Of Information Studies
- Anderson Financial Systems jon@afs.com
- tjhendry@queen.mcs.drexel.edu
- <set loose the marmosets!>
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