11 Oct
2011
11 Oct
'11
11:22 a.m.
On 10/10/2011 10:14 PM, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
And there were a WHOLE LOT of NeXT machines sold. Many people (like
apparently Will) haven't seen lots of them in the wild, I'm guessing
because they just haven't been in the right places. Half of the
country's colleges, and a little office building called The Pentagon
were filled to overflowing with those machines.
So NeXT was a
success like STRETCH or F S.
It at least had some good ideas. Heck, I'm using WindowMaker right
now... and have used it for something like ten years. I don't know if
that makes it a *good* environment, but it at least makes it pretty
darn usable. Of course, my second favorite is TWM, so perhaps I'm a
poor data point.
Better watch out, Firefox is going to replace it any day now, and it
will be illegal to run a windowing system! (nevermind the whole "how
will Firefox get its bits to the screen" thing...some kid will figure
out how to do that with Perl or JavaScript any day now)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA