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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Received on Fri Jun 26 1998 - 13:37:25 BST