24 May
2013
24 May
'13
9:10 p.m.
On 5/24/2013 8:52 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 05/24/2013 11:11 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Still cooler than running it on
x86 stuff. ;) Well yeah. But NeXTSTEP was fairly dead by the time it hit x86.
At least
when compared to its prior levels of popularity.
-Dave
It was also limited to a very small set of x86 hardware. It was pretty
much a full time quest to try and find all the parts to make it work. In
the end what you got was not as good as the 68k/risc ports. Sun actually
had engineers dedicated to nextstep. I imagine hp had some people doing
the parisc one too. I don't think I ever heard who did the x86 version.
Was it done by next ?
> NEXTSTEP 3.3 ran on PA-RISC?
Better yet it ran on SPARC. By far the fastest NS platform. A SM81 in a
SPARCStation 20 with the sx board is pretty much the ultimate NeXT box.
There is nothing out of the black hardware that came close
...but it was nowhere
near as COOL. (and this coming from a Sun lover!)