Gregory Casamento wrote:
Hey Guys,
I am glad to acknowledge our 35th anniversary. From the Usenet post
that Lars showed us guys all the way until today, GNUstep has come so
far. Here are a few firsts that the project has had:
Lars and I prepared a surprise.
1) First free software implementation of OpenStep/Cocoa.
2) 64-bit compliant before Apple's implementation
3) Was originally supposed to be the official GNU environment.
Not complete certified "firsts".
But "first" before Apple to run on Intel, SPARC and PA-RISC (NeXT did
support them, but processors were gradually lost through OpenStep and
finally to MacOS X 10.0).
First before Apple to run Multiprocessor (with some work done right on
the SparcStation 20 that I have and is still running GNUstep). Apple did
not have public multi-CPU boards, probably though used some internally
with UltraSPARC and Intel already.
GNUstep also did run on a Home Appliance before Apple TV (SNAP!)
although it did not go public.
Riccardo
