[NTLK] OT: OpenSTEP / NeXTSTEP

[Raj Patel]

I've got an old Colour NextStation slab - need to get it fired up (and
remember the 'root' password!). Lovely hardware and OS - I was always amazed
that they made a fully multi-tasking, great looking, non-crashing OS (even
capable of distributed processing) back when MacOS was stumbling around in
flakey OS 7.5/8 land on essentially the same CPU.

Shame NeXT didn't drop the price - unless you were an Academic or Student
the cost was prohibitive compared to a PC (or even a Mac).

OpenStep was better still and ran on decent spec white-box PC hardware - if
anyone had tried the early Rhapsody Developer Releases from 2000 they would
have seen it as essentially a re-skinned OpenStep.

Cheers,
Raj.

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:21 AM, DWDMGUY <dwdmguy at optonline.net> wrote:

> May I ask, I never had the chance to try NextSTEP. Was it really that good
> a folks say?
> Thanks
> Tom
>
>
> On Mar 26, 2010, at 5:11 PM, G Y wrote:
>
> > Back then you could not run NextSTEP or OpenStep on the Mac hardware.
>  Some of us tried and the CPU chipsets were different. Mac had their PowerPC
> and 68040/68030  CPUs. NeXTSTEP was available for (MIPS, SPARC, INTEL, and
> Motorola (if my memory serves me right)).
> >
> > That is why I needed to add two of the main boxes (Cube and Station)
> about 9 years ago to my Macintosh collection. Now if only I could get
> OpenStep 4.2 for Intel software.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > G.
> > The Mac 512
> >
> >
> > On Mar 25, 2010, at 2:00 PM, newtontalk-request at newtontalk.net wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:36:26 +0000
> >> From: Lord Groundhog <lordgroundhog at gmail.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [NTLK] OT: OpenSTEP / NeXTSTEP
> >> To: "newtontalk at newtontalk.net" <newtontalk at newtontalk.net>
> >> Message-ID: <C7D1256A.2437F%lordgroundhog at gmail.com<C7D1256A.2437F%25lordgroundhog at gmail.com>
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> >>
> >> Hi Ryan,
> >>
> >> I only just saw this.  One of the guys in our Mac User Group did his
> degree
> >> on something to do with operating systems, and NeXTSTEP figured largely
> in
> >> one phase of his work.  As a consequence, a few years ago he ended up
> doing
> >> a presentation on NeXT computers and their OS, with special reference to
> the
> >> evolutionary trail from Next to OSX.  NeXTSTEP was an amazing thing to
> see
> >> especially for when it came out (can you imagine what life might have
> been
> >> like if Macs had been running something like OSX by '95?), but it never
> >> occurred to any of us at the time to try running NeXTSTEP or OpenSTEP on
> our
> >> Macs.  I don't know why really; it's an obvious thing to do once the
> >> suggestion is made.  I'll be interested to read your progress if you
> care to
> >> post anything more on this.  Who knows?  I might even have a go.
> >
> >
> >
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