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From: Anthony_D'Orazio@mail.amsinc.com (Tony D'Orazio)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.mach
Subject: Re: Great Deal on NeXTStep
Date: 9 Mar 1995 19:50:23 GMT
Organization: American Management Systems
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In article <1995Mar7.065343.25164@cc.ntnu.edu.tw>, s21008@cc.ntnu.edu.tw (DL83-08) says:
>
>jmonroy (jmonroy@calon.com) wrote:
>:       NeXTStep is available for $100 dollars and you can
>:       register it as your copy.  See comp.os.386bsd.development
>:       for details.
>
>Could you give me a clue as to what NeXTStep is?  I've heard of it for some
>time, but could never find any information.

Certainly.  Steve Jobs thought at one time the the 68x00 series processor
was the end-all-be-all of processors.  So he made the Mac.  Apple didn't
like him because he was too cocky, so he left and made an even
more OO OS.  For the same damn processor (albeit in machines with
quite a bit more RAM and HD space).  Well, 3 years and 61,000
machines later, he decided that there was no money in Macs on steroids,
so he ported NeXTStep to Intel and other platforms.  That went nowhere
even faster.  As far as I know, only ONE major company (Wolfram Research)
still commercially offers NeXT software (Mathematica), and Lotus
even quit making Improv.  I think now Jobs is working with Sun to get
the general concepts of NeXT included in the OSF standards, or something
like that

Anyone care to fill in the blanks?

td3