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Sadly, the past 10 years seems to have been taken up with making Job’s vision an affordable reality. What everyone Linux person wants is what Jobs already delivered…and he knew it was the future over a decade ago. It was “just” the OO language choosen by NeXT (because it was the most really OO “C” language). īy the way, NeXT didn’t created Objective-C, Brad Cox did it before NeXT. It’s true that there is “always something to do” on GNUstep, but it’s enoughly complete to be able to port MacOS X or OpenStep applications (MPlayer.app, ToyViewer.app, NeXTGo, etc.)įor more informations and a presentation about NeXT,OpenStep, GNUstep and Objective-C programming, you could read this article : … More docs are available on. The only widgets missing are some like NSDrawers, which aren’t OpenStep but MacOS X, and even for them, somebody started to add them (but frankly, NSDrawers don’t fit well with NeXT UI and anyway it’s really easy with the OO framework to just put what was in the drawer in a panel). Most (if not all) OpenStep widgets and classes are implemented. It has such a nice tactile feel, they lasted forever and were a dream to use.Įxcuse me, but why do you mention that GNUstep only implements 75% of the API ? that’s totally untrue. They certainly don’t make them like they used it. The keyboard was one of my favorite parts. Unfortunately, OmniWeb was unusably slow, the only slow thing about that platform, I think because of the DisplayPostscript conversions. It’s amazing that NeXTMAIL on that hardware was as fast as Outlook is on modern hardware, while providing most of the same features. They never crashed and were virtually trouble free. Window movement was fast, especially considering it was a 68040 processor (and someones only a 68030) running at 25 or 33 MHz (the turbo models). It’s amazing what they were able to do with only 16 MB RAM (most of the slabs could only be busted out to 32 or 64 MB total worth of very expensive 30 pin SIMMS).

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When Windows was 3.1, NeXTSTEP was a swift graphical object-oriented environment that still beats Linux desktops. Mail was NeXT Mail, which in 1993 was able to drag and drop and do all of the features that Microsoft “innovated” with Outlook many years later. The entire operation ran on NeXTSTEP 3.3.

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Everyone had a NeXT workstation in addition to any other computer, such as a Mac of Windows PC(some only used NeXT). I was introduced to NeXT in 1996 when I went to work for an ISP called digitalNATION. Now I own a Mac and I still wait for the moment when I have time to get in touch with Cocoa. He does not switch it on, so he has no noise. I could record voice mails, a feature that I still cannot find in widely used mail programs!!Īfter some time I could no longer stand the noise, so I sold the computer to someone who collects old computers just because of the great design and great history. But not longer than 15 minutes, because of the noise, after that period I got headaches :-). I could play around with the software, surf the net, get in touch with the cool apps.

But when I build that HD inside the Next and switched on, this sounded like a jet is flying next to my house. Unfortunatelly the HD was damaged, so I searched for a source for Next hardware and was lucky enough to find a company located in my city, which had really sold me a HD with NextStep on it. At that time I was already waiting for MacOSX and i thought it would be cool to see what Apple engineers are working on. Imagine wold of NeXT, Mac, Amiga, Atari computer…we would have to do more inspiring jobs.Ībout 4 years ago a friend of mine told me that he is able to get a Next Station. But Im grateful because I make my livelyhood for over 10 years fixing the problems MS creates. I can still run circles around any XP multigigahertz PC. Not to mention spending less time fixing and more time using the tool to develop better treatments, games, architecture etc. The newbies to Information Technology(the latest rehash name for same thing = computer stuff) won’t know what they could have had in productivity and creativity.

Saw Microsoft team up with IBM only to get a GUI and use unfair practices to put small guys out of business. So computer OSes happened the same way the biggest is not the best by far.

Direcway (Hughes) blatantly show ads about internet speed and my modems faster …aaaah but gotta give it to them the fine print garantees nothing except penalty if you cancel service. ATT, Verizon whomever supposed to divest only to get back as monopoly and give less service. I like NeXT, Atari, Amiga.etc but monopoly in computers work the same as in telecomm. Still boot my 33mhz Amiga 2000 with a whopping 16meg ram faster than this XP 733mhz. Commodore had a lot of first but not first with corporate corruption. Came with 16bit digital sound and video out.

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Same motorola based chipset faster/cheaper than peers using same hardware plus emulated them all.