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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: <1992Nov11.155648.12390@dvorak.amd.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 15:56:48 GMT
- Article-I.D.: dvorak.1992Nov11.155648.12390
- References: <1992Nov11.031131.150747@zeus.calpoly.edu>
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- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
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- In article <1992Nov11.031131.150747@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- mrothste@keiko.acs.calpoly.edu (Rothstein) writes:
- >>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.
-
- Or better yet Objective-C. There are 3rd party extensions to the Borland
- compiler which allow one to do Windoz programming in Obj-C. For that matter
- the same folks make a product which allow Smalltalk objects to communicate with
- Obj-C objects and vis versa.
- --
- Ronald Pomeroy Objective-C/Smalltalk pseudo neophyte
- Advanced Micro Devices [self dream-on];
- CAM Applications Group
- rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (NeXTmail preferred)
-