27 Jan
2023
27 Jan
'23
8:08 p.m.
On 1/26/23 11:07 PM, Will Senn wrote:
but I really don't know nothing about NeXT,
it's boxes, or what I'm really
wondering about - its relationship with unix (although I'm pretty sure
there is one). I know that Sun was working with them on OpenStep and
OpenStep and the NeXT cube were predecessors to my favorite contemporary
system (my Mac), but that's about it. So, how does NeXT fit into the unix
world? And was it all that? I remember after talking to them that I really,
really wanted one...
NeXTs were really nice boxes. The environment was basically Mach + 4.3BSD +
Display Postscript + Objective C + the libraries and frameworks that became
macOS Carbon and Cocoa + their GUI. I had one for a while, and wish I still
did for old times' sake.
NeXT was Steve Jobs's company, and Apple acquired them to make the NeXT OS
the basis of MacOS X. That is a very interesting story itself.
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