As an artist who builds and references color palettes across apps and Apple platforms, the #pastelapp by @stroughtonsmith replaces and improves the much-missed color picker Frank DeLoupe that I first started using in 2012. Pastel manages color palettes across all my platforms. The Mac version even includes an eyedropper to pick any color on screen just like Frank DeLoupe. Immediate purchase.

My first palette represents #NeXTstep's original 2-bit colors. Old habits die hard.

given that apparently the nextstep machine-independent kernel sources where available on floppies, does anyone know where there is a copy of them?

Source: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/FAQ/NeXT.release

#unix #retrocomputing #nextstep #sourcecode

Operating System Friction

https://islandinthenet.com/operating-system-friction/

Today I finished installing NeXTSTEP 3.3 just to make this #Gopher capture. Props to the @OmniGroup  people for still providing a 68k build of OmniWeb on their site 30 years later.
https://contra.rio.br/@muito_pelo/statuses/01KGGBB4Y54QQQMTFGQ7VHVMG0

#RetroComputing #NeXTSTEP

A fascinating look back at 1994: Bud Tribble explaining the pivotal alliance between NeXT and Sun Microsystems.

It’s incredible to read how OpenStep was pitched as the "mature" object-oriented solution back then—laying the groundwork for the architecture we still use today in macOS. Real engineering history.

#RetroComputing #NeXTSTEP #SunMicrosystems #TechHistory #Unix #OpenStep #Apple

https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/nextworld-interviews-bud-tribble

I should be working but I compiled previous (the NeXT Cube emulator) on my M1 Air (on Asahi/Fedora).

System 3.3 install takes a while but I guess this is correct for these days...

#retrocomputing #nextstep

NeXT even had fax…
(😊)

Fascinating insight into the early commercial days.

And for anyone who wants to know what their system really cost!

Photos show NeXT internal selling guide, including section on Looking Forward which states:

“We offer powerful networking capabilities. We even offer fax capabilities.”

#NeXT
#NeXTSTEP
#RetroComputing

This morning our boy got told that he was accepted at his prefered high school and he is SUPER made up and so are we.!

To say we're putting everything we can behind him is an understatement, but it's literally what makes me feel at peace as a parent.

#nextstep #education #parenting

Michelle David & The True-tones

https://mobilisons.ch/events/182de0a2-a455-48f7-b519-ba0c527a765a

corto.alto

https://mobilisons.ch/events/d9621130-e7c9-442e-bf96-114f99dcfd2a

Bixiga 70

https://mobilisons.ch/events/c61c1f4d-1412-4cc8-be39-8a2470de0651

Reuben James

https://mobilisons.ch/events/8d57df7d-e038-4035-b003-e2d13b3e78e2

Ruby Rushton

https://mobilisons.ch/events/2f6002fc-8c73-490b-852f-dbe7eaa344cb

Theo Croker « Dream Manifest »

https://mobilisons.ch/events/99cb69ee-7441-4b97-abb7-3bbb288c0b8a

This is obviously a longshot, but: I’m trying to boot OpenStep on a SPARCstation 20. I have the optical media. I can “boot cdrom” and get the installer going, but then I get:

Loading OPENSTEP

Reading OPENSTEP configuration
Starting OPENSTEP
Level 15 interrupt

…and I’m back at the “ok” prompt. Anyone know what a “level 15 interrupt” is?

[Edit: it seems to be a broad hardware failure error, and the current suspect is ram; see replies.]

#sparc #nextstep #openstep

@cstross

#MacOS has been like this for more than a decade. There used to be a fairly decent manual page set on-line, much like what the BSDs and Illumos have to this day. But they all got deleted after lying unmaintained, and it became apparent years ago what Apple's attitude to doco was.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/239484/18044

@kithrup
#Apple #ManualPages #NextSTEP

EDIT: They have found a new home.

I just dug up seven NeXT floppies that need a new home! The back of each label has NeXTStep Format printed on it. 💾

#FreeToAGoodHome #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #NextStep #FloppyDisk

#nextstep #parisc #risc #retrocomputing
https://www.openpa.net/nextstep_pa-risc.html

👾 Gershwin: Desktop Environment based on GNUstep welcoming to switchers

｢ Gershwin offers Workspace, Terminal, TextEdit, System Preferences, a native Window Manager for X11 apps, Global Menu server for GNUstep/X11 apps, and more ｣

https://github.com/gershwin-desktop/gershwin-desktop

#Gershwin #gnustep #nextstep #opensource

The #previous packages for i386, amd64, and arm64 at wmlive.rumbero.org/repo/pool/ma... have been updated to its current 4.0-r1747 version. The builds are based on libsdl3 version 3.2.10, as offered in the target release Debian/Trixie. #nextstep #wmlive #gnustep #debian #linux

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