If you ask me, CHRP was worthless, like the rest of the Apple cloning
program. In the end, not a soul made a cent off that whole thing, and
many people were stuck with machines that didn't have warranty /
support. Lastly, what's so good about a DB25 serial port on a Mac
anyway? Now USB is good. Could NeXTs run any non-NeXT software?
Sounds cool. Many of the greatest design concepts are
stopped... not
because of bugs, not because of tiredness of developers, but because of
the
only thing obstructing innovation: Money.
Tim
Actually they (NeXT) had started work on a dual Motorola 88000 machines
before NeXT dropped out of the hardware biz. Some former NeXT hardware
guys went on to form a company called FirePower to design PREP?, CHRP?
compliant PPC computers. They released a few but were then bought by
Motorola and of course we all know what happened to
PREP/CHRP/WhatEVER.
George
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