On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:40, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote:

> It would be nice if we could link to (or host) some of the videos of Steve
> Jobs demoing the NeXT stuff (NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, PDO, WebObjects).  All of
> these demos show just how far ahead NeXT was.  I just watched the one about
> the design of the DMA architecture on the NeXT workstation - it looks crazy
> today because he's talking about stuff that everyone does as if it's new and
> exciting.  Then you realise that the reason that he's having to explain in
> so much detail is that this really is a new concept for anything smaller
> than a mainframe - PCs and workstations are all doing it now, but they
> weren't back then.
>
> Many of the presentations have the same quality.  You watch them and think
> 'well, of course - why would you do it any other way?'  Then you remember
> that the rest of the industry at the time was doing it another way.
>

Here's one wonderful example.

NeXTSTEP Release 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02b8Fuz73A

-- 
Ivan Vučica - [email protected]
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