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Re: NeXT
NeXT machines are no longer there, only if you think of NeXT as the old
black boxes, like mine.
They are, otherwise, pretty well there on PC's, HP and soon on Sparc and
DEC alpha (the old enemies of NeXT turned out to be its best friends:
maybe they started to worry about the possibility that vaporware like
Cairo, Taligent etc could not be too late to market to be viable, while
NEXTSTEP has reached its release 3.2 and hase a large installed basis
and enthusiastic users)
You have a Canon machine (Pentium 90 double processor) built in the old NeXT
factory, and you have NeXT portables also: NSP sells them and I own one.
You have display postscript on your PC, even portable, and now an 8-bit
color driver for portables after NextExpo.
I am pretty happy with my portable, but NSP is designing a new one, with
plenty of features to be a real workstation on the road (see them at
nsp@world.std.com).
And, ... no... apparently NEXTSTEP will not run on a thinkpad, since the TP
is really built to be an IBM proprietary DOS/Windows or OS/2 or SCO machine,
not an open one, so you need IBM support to have an OS running on it...
--Roberto