Interestingly, Apple Corp. appears to have decided to buy NeXt Step, so
UNIX may be on the verge of either
        (i) gaining 50 million new users; or
        (ii) going bust altogether along with Apple (I hope not!!!!!).

Badri Roysam
Associate Professor
Advanced Imaging Systems Laboratory
Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Ed Monberg wrote:

> . . . (though I have nothing but intuition to back it up) is that the
> >primary reason for the higher cost for the UNIX platform software
> >is the smaller market.
> >
> >billo
>
> Let us remember that NEXT(step) is
> a not completely obscured UNIX
> AND it (now) runs on  MAC, SUN, (and I think) SGI.
>
> What Ho ?
>
> Ed
>