RE: THE LONG AND WINDING LOOP
RE: THE LONG AND WINDING LOOP
Sent: 12/20/96; 12:33:43 PM
From: leonardr@aladdinsys.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
At 8:31 AM -0800 12/20/96, DaveNet email wrote: > Yesterday a rumor circulated that Apple had dropped its plan to > acquire Be and was moving instead to buy the assets of NeXT, > specifically their operating system and their founder, Steve Jobs, > who is also the founder of Apple. > Well, I don't know that I want Jobs back, but technically I would MUCH rather see Apple go with the NeXT OS than with the BeOS. It's a MUCH more complete environment (Be is still missing a lot of stuff like printing ;), runs off a standard Unix base (which means lots of stuff will either work out of the box or port much easier) and is generally better.
LDR
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