From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Re:  Nextstep on NT
Distribution: world
Date: 9 Sep 92 09:23:28 PST
Organization: Not an Organization

>In article <1992Sep08.160141.104952@lexmark.com> songer@lexmark.com (Christopher Songer) writes:
>jbone@splat.dell.com (Jeff Bone) writes:
>>
>[Lots of UNIX romps on NT stuff. :) ]
>
>My feeling is that NT offers enough of the functionality of UNIX
>to destroy UNIX's bid for the desktop. NT will never replace UNIX -- no
>proprietary system could do that, but it could relgate UNIX to the role
>of a niche player.
>
>To bring the topic back to nexts... There is no question that NT is a
>monumental improvement over the current OS being used by the majority
>of PC users. NT will probably have good sales, and completely independent
>of its technical merits, will probably garner a large market share. The
>mere fact that it is from MicroSoft, offers all the networking of UNIX,
>offers the OS functionality of UNIX and requires fewer system resources
>dictates this. One would almost wonder if in the first year it will
>exceed UNIX's market share.
>
>Also worth mentioning is that NT seems to offer an OS base that provides
>much of the functionalty Nextstep requires. (If can be ported to AIX,
>it can be proted anywhere :)
>
>So the question is NeXT should port to NT? Certainly if they want to go for

    NT is a piece of crap... MicroSoft's sole purpose in life is to develop
    proprietary software, hook everyone, then leave them hanging.  They did
    that with MS-DOS and they are doing that with MS Windows.  Their only
    interest in the matter is greed.  Microsoft had a thousand chances to
    put together something really good and decided not to.  Multitasking
    may be new to the PC world but it isn't to everyone else.  Why then,
    didn't Microsoft develop a proper multitasking core right off in MS
    1.0?  Hell, they OWN a huge chunk of SCO and ignore it.  How many
    releases will they have gone through to get the most basic multitasking
    that NT is to provide?  How many more before the OS is stable?  How
    many more before processes stop crashing the machine?

    To me, it really doesn't matter how well Windows performs relative to
    MS-DOS, I absolutely refuse to cater to Microsoft's priorities which
    are (1) make money, (2) market software whether it works or not, (3)
    make even more money by providing software updates with only small
    incremental improvements, and, (4) delegate everything else to the 'not
    important' folder.

    If NeXT is interesting in breaking MS's choke hold on the market with
    NS-486 they are going to have to sell it in the $50-$100 range and have
    a large number of NeXT applications available for it at introduction,
    as well as hire the SoftPC people to put together a PC-emulator (not
    too hard on a PC platform!) to give people a jumping board.

    If NeXT doesn't do this then their NS-486 will be a failure.  NeXT, if
    you can break Microsoft I would be really happy!

					-Matt

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