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- From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
- Subject: Re: NeXTstep for PowerPC --- THE ONLY CHOICE
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.000325.190@dvorak.amd.com>
- Sender: usenet@dvorak.amd.com (Usenet News)
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- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
- References: <1jpl1pINNjqe@phakt.usc.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 00:03:25 GMT
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- In article <1jpl1pINNjqe@phakt.usc.edu> rawyatt@phakt.usc.edu (Robert Alexander
- Wyatt) writes:
- >>
- >>Marcos-
- >> I know...I know...It is unlikely that Steve and Apple/IBM would ever make
- up,
- >>and why should he? You are right...Steve was treated unfairly by both
- >>companies...My only point was (using Taligent and NeXT as examples) that the
- >>computer industry would benefit and grow greatly from some cooperation
- >>instead of so much bickering and insisting that "my system is better then
- >>yours..." And hey, if they can't do that, NeXT should work on a PowerPC
- >>port of NeXTstep so that it is available LONG BEFORE Taligent's is...
- >>
- >>-Rob
- >>rawyatt@scf.usc.edu
- >>NeXTmail accepted
-
- Ha! IBM screwed themselves more than they screwed Steve. Witness the stock
- prices and layoffs (not that NS would have saved 'em - but it wouldn't have
- hurt).
-
- --
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