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- From: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga / Mac and NeXTStep..
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- Date: 8 Nov 92 20:07:13 GMT
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- Yamanari writes
- > On a different note (that is, somethign other than NS486),
- > has anyone considered that NeXT ought to do a quickie port
- > of NS486 to the Amiga (the A4000 is 68040, and there are
- > a number of 68040 A3000's...) and to the Mac (the
- > Quads)..
-
- If NeXT wants to make money, I would think they'd stay far away from porting to
- just any platform. Ease of porting doesn't necessarily it would be a good port
- to do.
-
- For the Amiga and Atari markets, piracy is rampant. Unless there's a hardware
- dongle or board necessary to run it, chances are the number of people that have
- illegal copies of the software will far outnumber the people who bought the
- software and the number of people who bought the software will not be enough to
- cover the cost involved in porting the software. Even if there were no piracy
- at all on either platform, I doubt many people in the Amiga and Atari markets
- would be willing to spend the money that NeXT would need to justify porting to
- a platform where there are relatively few professionals where money is no
- object. Both of these platforms are mainly composed of young people that don't
- have much money to spend on computers in the first place.
-
- Given that a top-of-the-line Mac equipped with what a top-of-the-line NeXT
- offers would be in the same ballpark price range as the top-of-the-line NeXT,
- why not just buy the NeXT to start with? Also, since Quadra machines don't
- compose the majority of the Mac market, yet these machines would probably be
- the ones targeted by a NeXTSTEP/Mac, I don't think it would be very wise to
- pursue such a thing.
- --
- -- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
- -- NeXTmail welcome
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