On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 04:45:50PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
If Next had only separated the software from the hardware so that you
could install NextStep OS on any desktop PC, that would have been a
great platform.
Unfortunately, you could not use the NextStep OS unless you also
purchased the NextStep hardware.
They did with later releases (and towards the end, even stopped making
hardware, becoming a purely software company). NeXTSTEP 3.1 and later ran
on x86, SPARC and PA-RISC systems. Back in the mid-90s I ran 3.3 on a
greybox 486/33 (albeit in mono because it only had 8MiB RAM!). I have a
correctly-specced SPARCstation 20 that I've been wanting to install it on
for years, just not had the spare tuits...
And, of course, OS X is really just a continuation of NeXTSTEP.
-mj
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