13 Dec
2011
13 Dec
'11
6:08 p.m.
On 12/13/2011 08:40 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
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.
Porting software to NeXTSTEP was a cast-iron mofo. I lost a lot of
hair in those days.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA