14 Mar
2017
14 Mar
'17
11:59 a.m.
On Mar 8, 2017, at 7:01 PM, Mouse via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Sufficient hardware documentation has been available to write emulators (Previous) and
port NetBSD.
That said, I don?t understand why one would have NeXT hardware and then run NetBSD on it
instead of the NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP operating system that was designed for it and is
period-appropriate. If you?re not going to use it as NeXT hardware, maybe someone who will
use it that way would be happy to have it.
Also, especially for software that?s (1) built using a common and well-undertsood
architecture, (2) not ?secured? in any way, and (3) not being updated, you really can
maintain and improve it yourself pretty reasonably.
Heck, there?s a pretty accurate Open Source decompiler for Objective-C called ?code-dump?
(derived Steve Nygard?s ?class-dump?) to which it would probably be straightforward to add
68040 support?
-- Chris
I'm also a Cube owner in Toronto. Maybe we
should start a local
collector's / user's group :D
Any others care to speak up?
I'm in Ottawa. I've got a - very small! - collection of NeXT hardware.
A slab or two, at least one megapixel display (the 2bpp greyscale
kind), some small number of keyboards, a mouse or two, that's probably
about it. I gave away my Cube years back.
I've been tempted to get rid of them, but feel sentimental enough about
having developed MouseX that I've so far avoided doing so. Also, I've
been holding out the (admittedly slight) hope that hardware
documentation will surface for the interesting hardware; I do not run
closed-source software, so that's important to me.