From: rawyatt@phakt.usc.edu (Robert Alexander Wyatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: NeXTstep Misconceptions - Educate Yourself - Don't Just Flame!!!
Date: 23 Jan 1993 00:37:41 -0800
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After my most recent post concerning Taligent, PowerPC, and all that good
stuff, I received an interesting response from Paul Marcos at Kaleida.
Paul commented on the specs I quoted from Robert Szarek...



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To: rawyatt@phakt.usc.edu (Robert Alexander Wyatt)
Subject: Re: NeXTstep for PowerPC --- THE ONLY CHOICE
Reply-To: marcos@kaleida.com
Status: R

In comp.sys.mac.advocacy article <1jonbqINN928@phakt.usc.edu> you wrote:
> 

> "Pink/TalOS - will even leapfrog NeXtStep 3 from what I can dig up. It
> will over CPU enablers for different platforms (RISC, 680x0, Pentium?,
> x86s). 

NeXT will have these covered before Taligent ships.  They've already got 
680x0, and are on the verge of having x86s and Pentium.  RISC (like the 
DG Aviion) are well under way and expected shortly.  At best, Taligent will
match NeXTs schedule.  


> The most interesting concept is that programs will be able to
> borrow objects from one prg. to another. The prg. will have to 

> "announce" it's objects to the OS, other apps (possibly from the same
> or other soft vendors) can look up the object, and if available, it
> will use it. Think of it, one dictionary object used by your Word
> processor, database, and spreadsheet. The object can be applied in 

> various different ways. Like in the wp it would be used to check
> text words. But if the dict. obj. can access various data structs.
> then in theory it can read words stored in a draw file! Now that's
> power that even NeXTStep doesn't offer. They do have OOP but on a
> per app. basis. Something a la C++ but better. I could be wrong 

> does NS 4 offer object OS/app sharing ?
Yes, NeXT does offer this NOW!  NeXT has Distributed Objects which let any  
application vend it's objects for use by other applications.  The beauty of  
their implementation is that it's transparent to a network.  A remote object  
can be located on the same machine, on a machine on a local net or a machine  
all the way across the world connected via the Internet.  The applications  
don't care and don't know.  



Just thought I'd add my couple pennies.  


Paul
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Rather interesting...Looks like Taligent has a long way to go to catch up!

-Rob
rawyatt@scf.usc.edu
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