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- From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola)
- Subject: Re: First Taligent Won't Run Existing Apps
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.193108.18698@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1992Aug19.014443.1@vax1.umkc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 19:31:08 GMT
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- > Soliciting comments on the following:(long)
- >
- > "First Taligent OS Won't Run Existing Apps"
- >
- > BOSTON -- The first edition of Taligent's
- > object-oriented operating system will not run existing
- > OS/2, Macintosh and AIX applications, an IBM official
- > confirmed last week.
- > [more deleted]
-
- Doesn't surprise me, but who cares? The feature list that
- Taligent _promises_ reads almost exactly like the feature
- list that NeXT is _shipping_ NOW (and has been for almost
- two years). Why worry about future vapor?
- Also, NeXT has very good emulators available that allow
- both DOS and Mac apps to be run. NOW. So again, who cares
- what Taligent may or may not do in five years time?
- --
- -
- Stefano Pagiola
- Food Research Institute, Stanford University
- spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
-