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- From: waltrip@capd.jhuapl.edu
- Subject: Re: NT: please define vapor.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.171812.1@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> <1992Sep10.101204.1@capd.jhuapl.edu> <jbone.716138789@splat>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:18:12 GMT
-
- In article <jbone.716138789@splat>, jbone@splat.dell.com (Jeff Bone) writes:
- > I hate to engage *again*, but...
-
- No, no, Jeff, it was my fault...
-
- >
- > waltrip@capd.jhuapl.edu writes:
- >>
- >> And, of course, we should note, Steve, that porting NeXTSTEP to NT
- >> would permit it to run on the DEC ALPHA 8^)
- >>
- >
- > Okay, goal: get NeXTStep on Alpha.
-
- ...but that's not quite what I had in mind. Porting to NT will get
- you on whatever platform happens to be running on NT. One of those
- happens to be ALPHA which I mentioned since Steve was from DEC.
- Others would be MIPS and Intel. You'd have one hell of a server
- with the parallel processing box from Sequent that runs NT. So my
- point has really been that you wouldn't have to port Mach to ALPHA
- and then to MIPS and then to ... Instead, one port to NT and the
- rest are free. Well, almost (you need to port the compiler/linker
- and debugger if it hasn't already been done).
-
- But I concede your point (again) that it'd be a lot of work to make
- that initial port to NT.
-
- > In fact, there is *nothing* that NeXT can gain by porting to NT that
- > can't be gained cheaper/faster/better by remaining with their own
- > kernel architecture, *EXCEPT* the supposed market advantage of being
- > able to say they're on NT. Repeat: the *only* reason to port NeXTStep
- > to NT is to *be* on NT.
-
- And I believe we're in complete agreement here. We just take a
- different view on the probable market impact of NT. And it's
- that market impact that determines whether or not it would be
- smart for NeXT to port to NT. And that determines whether there's
- likely to be a NeXTSTEP box on my office desktop (black would look
- great 8^}
-
- And, oh BTW, I'd personally find a black-portable-NeXTSTEP-Dell-mono-
- 32meg-box with built-in Ethernet for docking at home mighty hard to
- resist...with or without NT. I might even volunteer to travel.
-
- Opinions expressed are my own.
-
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