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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