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
Installing #OpenStep or #Rhapsody for x86 includes „You need a shittier #SCSI host adapter“, two bad floppy drives and a Kernel Panic 🙄
It was easier when I just had a weak AHA-2940 and a Sym53C810 instead of that pile of fancy UltraWide stuff. #scsinightmare
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.]
Wie der NeXT-Kauf Steve Jobs zurück zu Apple brachte
Am 20. Dezember 1996 kaufte Apple die Computerfirma NeXT, die Steve Jobs nach seinem Abschied aus Cupertino gegründet hatte. Der Deal brachte nicht nur neue Software, sondern auch Jobs selbst zurück zu Apple.
Apple übernimmt NeX
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/wie-der-next-kauf-steve-jobs-zurueck-zu-apple-brachte/
#News #Tellerrand #Apple #AppleGeschichte #GilAmelio #MacOSX #macOS #NeXT #NeXTStep #OpenStep #Pixar #SteveJobs
Wow, sold for approx $1000. This is a desirable item. #RetroTech #OpenStep
If anyone wants a complete #RetroTech NeXTSTATION to run #OpenStep on, this Yahoo auction looks like an excellent chance. It even has the original box and original cables with little NeXT logos on them!! 😍
I admit I don’t personally use windowmaker because I use a Mac. But it’s important to remember the reason NeXTStep changed to OpenStep is because the AppKit and Foundation API was meant to be open. The idea being if there was an a different implementation that had the same API the apps would “just work”.
That’s what WMLive is. It’s a GNUStep open source reimplementation of the OpenStep API and it “just works”
In fact someone from the community ported MathEdit for #OpenStep to GNUStep and you can see how tiny the pull request is. It “just works”
So please support and boost!
I'm considering trying out a #RadxaX4 for my #NeXTcube mini for a native #OPENSTEP 4.2 installation. Since it's #x86 #Intel hardware (N100), that should be possible, right? 🤔
#NeXTComputer #RetroComputer #VintageComputer #Replicas #Radxa #SBC
Steve Jobs presents - OpenStep's Interface builder - YouTube
If you were wondering why I let my #iMacG4 build git for 20 hours, I will tell you the real reason. Not only am I able to pull/commit/push MathEdit for #OpenStep, but the real reason is so I can pull/commit/push my new website which I am building with iWeb.
My current website is built by hand in bootstrap and because of that I hate working on it. But now I can build it in iWeb and push it straight to a live environment.
Here is the "Hello World" page I just made in iWeb: https://staging.jeffburg.com/
Here is the commit from the iMac: https://github.com/jeffreybergier/www-jeffburg-com/commit/22c513a42111d66baa4c2f49eda2fd146180d844
And who knew that the trunk in an original Mini Cooper was the perfect size to fit 2 NeXT Cubes??? 🤣
Sorry in advance for blurry photos, but digital cameras sucked back then.
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And here is all of my NeXT hardware arrayed out before I sold it all 😭
Sorry in advance for blurry photos, but digital cameras sucked back then.
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I was going through old photos to find pictures of my old tech. I want to make a long blog post about this, but it will take a while. So for now I will share some highlights I found of my desk I had in college. It has:
- Aluminum 20" iMac with external 24" monitor
- Dell Mini 9 Netbook Snow Leopard Hackintosh
- NeXT Cube
Sorry in advance for blurry photos, but digital cameras sucked back then.
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Holy Shit! I had to post today because I just looked at the timestamp for the first commit to MathEdit for #OpenStep and it was exactly 1 year ago today! On this 1 year anniversary for this toy project, I am happy to have completed the final milestone!
This little app which started as a "hello world" calculator app for OpenStep 4.2 from 1996 turned into a fully fledged and useful integrated text editor and calculator that works on every version of Mac OS X and is now its...
🥳On the Mac App Store🎉
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mathedit/id6747867773?mt=12
Its amazing to think that an application that uses literally 0 modern features of Objective-C is still allowed to be sold on the Mac App Store. Thats some insane source code stability!
Of course MathEdit is still a free and open source app on Github. But if you want to support its continued development, please buy it on the App Store!💰
https://github.com/jeffreybergier/MathEdit
There is still so much I want to do like adding unicode and RTF document support. But I am going to use this milestone to pause for a while and work on something modern with Swift, SwiftUI, and the Foundation Models framework.
That is unless I start getting so much money from interested fans 🤪🥰
Thanks so much for following along on this journey!
-Jeff
Haha, there is no way this will be approved the first time.... But I started the process of getting MathEdit for #OpenStep on Mac App Store!
