Randy,
Thank you for joining the thread. It's like Woody Allen (in Annie Hall) getting Marshall Macluhan to settle an argument about the media.
May I pose some naive questions:
1) Is it do-able to substitute the BeOS for the underlying Mach? If so, would this provide a significant performance benefit on a PowerPC platform?
2) Conversely, given NeXT's non-PPC origins, does APPL now have the basis for an OS to run on Pentium machines. What, if anything, might such an OS have to offer over NT? Or, could that system run Window apps with superior, or at least comparable, performance levels.
3) Given that AAPL had NT on its OS short list, can you enlighten on their *not* going the "safe" route? Ditto Java/SUNW.
4) To put the question broadly, what is the potential of NeXT? Where can it take AAPL?
In addition to SUNW/IBM/MOT,Netscape, who might be its new possible allies: Clones makers? (both Mac and NT) INTC? AMD? CYRIX.
Thanks in advance.
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