13 Dec
2011
13 Dec
'11
7:52 p.m.
On 12/13/2011 10:14 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
I meant workstations, of course.
Oh ok, gotcha.
I really liked NeXTs as workstations. Porting software to them
sucked, but for general *use*, man, they were great.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
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 :)
Ugh. It was never a server-grade OS, but it could possibly have been
with multiprocessor support and some tuning of the VM system. But then,
NeXT never made any server-class hardware...there was never any chance
of it competing with, say, Sun of the other-than-workstation variety.