The OS, NeXTStep, would be used as the foundation for OS X when Steve returned to Apple and threw out the entire MacOS codebase due to bugs, legacy cruft, and laughable security.
It’s why macOS has the Dock of icons across the edge of the screen to this day.
And the finder window layout with the successive columns of listings. I remember that on NeXT workstations in 1993. That’s around the first time I visited a world wide website.
Last I checked, the OSX native libraries use ObjectiveC and have system library calls prefixed with
ns_. So, “used as the foundation” is under-selling it a bit. I think they just re-skinned the NextStep GUI to make it resemble OS9 and called it a day.and threw out the entire MacOS codebase due to bugs, legacy cruft, and laughable security.
Maybe he shouldn’t have.
PHP was also originally developed on the NeXT cube
Everyone I knew, including me, wanted one but couldn’t afford them.
Yes. I developed a weakness for ancient workstations in the early 2000s and had all sort of shit. A few SUNs, SGIs (Octane, e320, Indigo2), an IBM multiprocessor machine (with distinct Xeon CPUs) and HPs but I could never get my hands on a next.
90s Unix workstations are so damn COOL!
SGI Indigo, Sun Sparc station, NeXT Cube, IBM RS6000 and others are just so COOL!
I really wish sgi hardware/software could have been open sourced rather than sold when they went down.
I was at the NeXT presentation in Paris by Jobs (still got the t-shirt somewhere). Later I got to play with a NeXT station they lent us as our offices were next to theirs. It was a fun machine but the existing systems were too entrenched and it didn’t really bring anything different enough (and there wasn’t much software available).
I still have a fully maxed out 68040 with the dimension board and display, long with the grey screen.
Everything for it except the printer (crap anyway) and the floptical (heads rotted and cap damage).
Love that machine despite shortcomings.
I’m probably going to swap in a bluescsi or similar here shortly to get something better than the Fireball drive I put in around 2002. Need to check the caps on the boards too for leakage.
I started using those in 1992 or 1993 and immediately fell in love with it. When osx was announced I was like. wait its going to have a next type gui with a freebsde base! Man its so sad apple lost its way.
We haven’t moved much since then. People still scroll internet and mostly play FPS games.
