And about that portability... While NeXT had just released their NextStep for the Intel PC, it was more precise to say that it worked on a very specific Dell PC

And about that portability... While NeXT had just released their NextStep for the Intel PC, it was more precise to say that it worked on a very specific Dell PC or Canon workstation configuration. I was able to get it up and running on a home-built 486, but I needed help from some friends at NeXT to make that happen. A late-night personal plugfest was clearly not a realistic option for corporate IT or for mass-market consumers. Whereas Windows NT 3.1 installed out of the box. NeXT also ported to the HP PA-RISC platform, that grew out of their relationship with NeXT NetObjects (or whatever their object-based RPC architecture was called) on HP Enterprise servers. But I've never met anyone who actually ran NextStep on an HP Gecko.