Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!polyslo!cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu!mdeale 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 References: <245300020@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (News Guru) Reply-To: mdeale@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu.UUCP (Myron Deale) Organization: ACS, Cal Poly, San Luis Lines: 34 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 // mdeale@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu