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To: Dave von Hausen who wrote (644)	12/25/1996 12:00:00 PM
From: soup	of 213182

David, Thanks for the response. I have a link and another dumb question. Link: Persons interested in this thread should check out the MacWorld News Groups on NeXT and ... BeOS. You've got to register but it's free. macworld.com:80/q/@504313zjxnqg/yapp-bin/res_main I specifically wanted the reaction of people who were rooting for AAPL to buy Be. That thread was were quite enthusiastic about the NeXT decision. No dissenters. Some pointed comments emerged about the limitations of NT (scaleability) for enterprise computing. One company has (reportedly) spent $1,000,000,000 (!) to set up an all NT system -- with no end in sight. Seems that NeXT provides a real alternative here -- even on PC hardware. The NeXT OS also points up NT legacy issues that MSFT will eventually have to patch. AAPL has the potential to exploit this. Dumb Question: I understand that new applications can be created on the NeXT OS to run on Pentium machines, but can existing Win '95 and NT apps be run on the NeXT OS (as in SoftWindows) with comparable speed. Or, to put it broadly, can AAPL effectively market this OS to the existing (legacy) base of PC users? Thanks in advance and MC! soup

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