10 Oct
2011
10 Oct
'11
3:59 p.m.
On 10/10/11 4:01 PM, Jason McBrien wrote:
Let's see - the level creation tools for the first
incarnation of id's Doom
were built on a NeXT, as was Berners-Lee first web server and browser. The
interface for Mathematica was designed on NeXT as well.
Did Theo Gray's definitive Mac front-end pre- or post-date Mathematica
on NeXT?
The Mac version certainly out-sold it.
Modern day MacOS X
is heavily influenced by NeXTStep and it's Objective-C development
environment, as is iOS.
More than "influenced" - OS X and iOS, a lot of the widgets, utilities,
file formats, protocols and supporting applications, derive directly
from that code.
--Toby
WebObjects was a fairly popular application
framework in the late 90's and early 2000's - I know of a few major websites
that used to run it.
I'd say NeXT was relatively successful, in that it was used to create
popular products and had a direct impact on later products.