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- From: waltrip@capd.jhuapl.edu
- Subject: Re: NT: please define vapor.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.101204.1@capd.jhuapl.edu>
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- Organization: CAPVAX, JHU/APL
- References: <1992Sep09.164238.2487@microsoft.com> <1992Sep9.203008.9838@adobe.com> <1992Sep10.013222.14702@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:12:04 GMT
-
- In article <1992Sep10.013222.14702@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>,
- halpin@vsg1.dsg.dec.com (Stephen E. Halpin) writes:
-
- [...good points...]
-
- > Its [NeXTSTEP] a great system. I REALLY hope it can grow to significance in
- > the
- > mass market. Getting on the 486 and later on the P5 will help considerably.
- > If the 88110 is the end of the line, buying into it will only hurt NeXT
- > (just ask owners of the original optical drive :-), especially if they
- > ultimately settle on a little endian RISC architecture. As it is processing
- > binary files on NS and NS486 will be, well, challenging.
-
- And, of course, we should note, Steve, that porting NeXTSTEP to NT
- would permit it to run on the DEC ALPHA 8^)
-
- Opinions expressed are my own.
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