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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