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From: mdeale@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu (Myron Deale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Remote NeXT Users, etc.
Message-ID: <1989Sep30.044619.18106@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 30 Sep 89 04:46:19 GMT
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In article <245300020@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>/* ---------- "Remote NeXT Users, etc." ---------- */
>
>In his message of 25 Sep 89 03:13:33 GMT jst@cca.ucsf.edu writes:
>> 
>
>I think it is perfectly clear that NEXT is using Unix simply as
>an expedient on the way to building a proprietary OS. They really
>want to be an island unto themselves, like Apple, in order to lock
>users in to their proprietary stuff. The difference from Apple
>is that they started from a real multitasking OS - but, given
>the way this thread is going, they seem to be trying to prevent
>NeXts from working well in a heterogeneous networked system
>(well, half way - they probably will work fine logged INTO a remote
>ordinary unix box).
>
>IF you want Unix, buy a real Unix box. There are lots of them.
>
>Doug McDonald

   Perhaps NeXT is going a proprietory route, but then if it works as
well as something like NSF, so what.

   I read in EE Times recently that OSF might adopt MACH, as an expedient
to AIX. Lots of folks in that OSF crowd -- and IBM seems to have popularity.
Why, I can't imagine.

   ... as long as filesystems can be mounted.


-Myron
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