From: Brandon S. Allbery (bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org)
Date: 09/05/93


From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: NeXTStep & Linux
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1993 22:59:16 GMT

In article <930904.224103.9T2.rusnews.w165w@mulvey.com> rich@mulvey.com (Rich Mulvey) writes:
>rlion@access.digex.net (crazy lion) writes:
>> nextssetp is, in my opinion the best OS there is. but it's hardware
>> requirements are just too great for intel. you'd have to have a fully
>> loaded comupter to even get one program running. so i doubt that anyoe
>> would spend all the time it owuld take to write it when few could benefit..
>>
> "Too great for Intel?" Ummmm... you may be interested in knowing that
>it has been available on Intel processors for several months now... and
>in fact, since Next is no longer producing hardware, the average person
>is likely to see it *only* on Intel machines... :-)

Which doesn't change the fact that it rivals NT for hardware requirements to
run it....

++Brandon

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Brandon S. Allbery         kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org          bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org
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