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- From: rpomeroy@aunext3.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Glowing Article on NS 3.0 in UnixWorld
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.144142.27891@dvorak.amd.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 14:41:42 GMT
- Article-I.D.: dvorak.1992Nov10.144142.27891
- References: <jonathan.721383969@author.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In article <jonathan.721383969@author.ecn.purdue.edu>
- jonathan@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan L Neuenschwander) writes:
- >>I recently picked up the November issue of UnixWorld, and was pleasantly
- >>surprised by the optimistic and upbeat review of NextStep 3.0. It is in the
- >>"Product of the Month" column even! Nice change from the general NeXT-had-
- >>some-good-ideas-too-bad-they're-doomed fare I'm used to seeing.
- >>
- >>One thing in the article did catch me by surprise though. In the first
- >>column, fourth paragraph, in reference to NeXTStep486 it states;
- >>
- >>"Next [They don't seem to like the caps in NeXT. Oh, well.] also says that
- >>the version will let users run multiple Microsoft Windows and DOS sessions
- >>inside Nextstep windows."
- >>
- >>Now the last time I saw the FAQ relating to NeXTStep486, it said that there
- >>wouldn't be any support for for DOS/Windows initially, something I always
- >>viewed as being a potentially fatal flaw. So did UnixWorld mess up, or WILL
- >>it be possible to run DOS/Windows?
-
- The keyword here is *WILL* - as in the future. And yes...it WILL allow this
- capability - some day :-) Journalists - tricky bunch 'a folks you know.
-
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