> I really don't understand... If they were talking about
> seriously of taking NeXT's MEMORY MANAGEMENT!,
> MULTITASKING!???? that is coming from UNIX. Maybe it
> was just PR type of rhetoric (doesn't matter what as
> long as it sounds good...?) But I really have a problem
> with 3rd part of that statement. They have a lot of
> options, yes they may use UNIX mach.
NeXT's Mach operating system is a very good one, it is a micro-kernel Unix-based OS with pre-emptive multi-tasking, multi-threading, and virtual memory. It's far superior to Win/NT or Apple's OS on these terms, and is probably comprable to BeOS but is more mature and better tested. It seems like a good choice, particularly because Avie Tevanian, NeXT's VP of engineering, wrote it originally.
> They may go with windows-NT for OS and OpenStep for
> Application layer, they may go with existing NeXT's
> strategy:we will run over what ever you want...
It's true that the OPENSTEP environment runs on Win/NT, but it has more experience running on Mach, and Mach was generally designed to support it. And there are a lot of questions about how to integrate with the Win/NT windowing environment that are non-issues when using Mach.
> But I doubt there is a good picture on that...
This is definitely true. We're going to have to wait and see what they announce. There are a lot of things to consider and I doubt we'll be happy with ALL of their decisions...
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