13 Dec
2011
13 Dec
'11
5:40 p.m.
On 12/12/11 10:35 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 12/12/2011 07:34 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
I always assumed it was Steve. Or, wild-ass guess: Tevanian?
Yes, Avi Tevanian! I'm almost positive it was him.
Nope, but it's just as bad.
It wasn't meant to supersede it, though. It was written only for use in
NeXTSTEP;
That doesn't mean it wasn't meant to supersede it :)
NEXTSTEP and the NeXT workstation was "intended" to sweep all before it.
Including SunOS, Sun and other proprietary Unix workstations. It
probably deserved to. Imagine if it had succeeded :)
--T
Hmm yes. The word 'netinfo' still strikes fear
into the souls of
people who tried to configure stuff like NFS exports on early OS X
versions :S
It was even a horrible pain back in NeXTSTEP. Apparently Netinfo had a
hardcore devotee (I don't recall who it was) within Apple who just Would
Not Let It Go for way too long. It was a
bad idea in NeXTSTEP, and an even worse idea in OS X. Good
riddance.
Is it really worse than NIS/YP (in fact NetInfo gives me the impression
it was meant to supersede it?) only later was it ported to other platforms, and only
then (if
memory serves) by a different company, not NeXT Computer.
-Dave