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by astrodust 3424 days ago
NeXT had an Intel version as a hedge as well. Seems those two projects were destined to merge together.
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pvg 3424 days ago
That was actually their product rather than a 'hedge' for a while.
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astrodust 3424 days ago
It started out as a hedge against their own hardware being an impediment to sales, then ended up being their entire business. I guess it was a good hedge to have!
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protomyth 3424 days ago
Considering they had NeXTSTEP release versions running on x86, PA-RISC, SPARC, and its original home 68000, they did pretty well. I do wonder why the MIPS chips were ignored.
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rvense 3424 days ago
Maybe SGI didn't want to play ball...
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protomyth 3424 days ago
Probably, but it just seems rather odd since MIPS had an open system spec and Windows NT had been ported to it.
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ams6110 3424 days ago
Not just Intel but PA-RISC and Sparc as well, in addition to M68K.
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rthille 3424 days ago
Also Moto 88110 RISC processors (though those NeXT products never saw the light of day...)
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Tanegashima 3423 days ago
More than that, NeXTSTEP 3.3 and later did really release to the public for Intel x86
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