24 May
2013
24 May
'13
9:19 p.m.
On 05/25/2013 12:10 AM, mc68010 wrote:
Well yeah. But
NeXTSTEP was fairly dead by the time it hit x86.
At least
when compared to its prior levels of popularity.
It was also limited to a very small set of x86 hardware. It was pretty
much a full time quest to try and find all the parts to make it work. In
the end what you got was not as good as the 68k/risc ports. Sun actually
had engineers dedicated to nextstep. I imagine hp had some people doing
the parisc one too.
I would imagine so as well, as it ran absolutely seamlessly and
without so much as a burp on both SPARC and PA-RISC. They HAD to have
vendor asssistance, at least in terms of documentation, back in those
days to achieve that level of integration and driver support.
>>
NEXTSTEP 3.3 ran on PA-RISC?
> Better yet it ran on SPARC. By far the fastest NS platform. A SM81
> in a
> SPARCStation 20 with the sx board is pretty much the ultimate NeXT
> box.
> There is nothing out of the black hardware that came close
...but it was nowhere near as COOL. (and this coming from a Sun
lover!)
Still cooler than running it on x86 stuff. ;) I don't think I ever heard who did the x86
version.
Was it done by next ?
I honestly don't know. I had very little contact with it after the
x86 port was done.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA