13 Dec
2011
13 Dec
'11
7:56 p.m.
On 13/12/11 9:47 PM, Mouse wrote:
At the time, they were *all* proprietary! I am pretty sure Steve meant
the NeXT to outrun, outcompute, outsexy the rest of the workstation market.
While other decisions may have been farsighted, his timing to have built
the system on 68K fell right on the sunset of the CISC workstation's
lifespan. I saw my first SPARCstation with megapixel monitor in 1989
iirc. (And as previously on this list, OpenWindows/X11/NeWS; so perhaps
NeXT was concretely influential, at least temporarily...)
--T
NEXTSTEP and
the NeXT workstation was "intended" to sweep all before
it. Including SunOS, Sun and other proprietary Unix workstations.
I doubt sweeping aside anything based on its being proprietary[%] was
part of the intent, especially since NeXTen included undocumented
hardware, notably the blitter, and NextStep included closed-source
components, notably the DPS server.
[%] Not _quite_ what you said, but your wording seems to indicate, to
me, that this is what you intended.
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