26 Jun
1998
26 Jun
'98
6:37 a.m.
Well the original NeXT's shipped with a trial copy of SoftPC. You could
also get a box that given Mac roms, could also run Mac software.
George
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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