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- From: mrothste@keiko.acs.calpoly.edu (Rothstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Glowing Article on NS 3.0 in UnixWorld
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.031131.150747@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 03:11:31 GMT
- Article-I.D.: zeus.1992Nov11.031131.150747
- References: <1992Nov10.144142.27891@dvorak.amd.com>
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- In article <1992Nov10.144142.27891@dvorak.amd.com>
- rpomeroy@aunext3.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop)) writes:
- > 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.
- >
- > --
- > Ronald Pomeroy - Smalltalk/NeXT psuedo neophyte
- > Advanced Micro Devices
- > CAM Applications Group
- > rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (NeXTmail preferred)
-
-
- YES NeXTSTEP 486 will run DOS/Windows 3.1 apps. Yes this is from NeXT not
- Insignia. No they will not be rootless initally and by the end of 93 NS
- 486 will run Win32/NT apps. The question they haven't answered is whether
- or not it will be standard or an option. I for one don't care if it is an
- option or not.
-
- This information comes from Bob Lawton's demo of NS486 at the Sep. BaNG
- meeting and an info sheet put out by NeXT. If I have mis-remembered
- anything please feel free to correct me.
-
- P.S. I dream that if I have to program in DOS/Windows that I will do it
- w/ Borland's C++ under NeXTSTEP. The irony is too much to resist.
-
- --
- -Mont
-
- NeXTmail OK :-)
- President CP-NUG (Cal Poly NeXT User Group)
- mrothste@data.acs.calpoly.edu
-