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- From: andrew@cubetech.com
- Subject: Re: Amiga / Mac and NeXTStep..
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.194135.8776@cubetech.com>
- Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov8.145622.24265@wam.umd.edu> <BxEyK2.G5E@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov8.210118.12604@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:41:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.210118.12604@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >In article <BxEyK2.G5E@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
- >>If NeXT wants to make money, I would think they'd stay far away from porting
- >>just any platform. Ease of porting doesn't necessarily it would be a good
- >>port to do.
- >
- >
- > It cannot _hurt_ NeXT to have the software available. The
- > Mac port would be, essentially, a recompile with some work
- > to handle IO (hd, video, mouse, kbd..).. The basic OS would
- > remain essentially unchanged. Not a huge investment.
-
- I would bet that you have never written a low-level device driver. In
- any event, cost time and resources aside, NeXTSTEP on a Quadra would
- be a doug due to video bandwidth. NuBus is way too slow for
- NeXTSTEP's video demands.
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- andrew
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