Re: Programming PowerPC on Mac

From: Phil Carmody (thefatphil_demunged_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: 24 Nov 2004 20:54:06 +0200

toby@telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain) writes:

> "Beth" <BethStone21@hotmail.NOSPICEDHAM.com> wrote in message news:<%gMod.358$%c7.344@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net>...
> > [...big, satisfying snip...]
> > Jobs, though often
> > "contravertial" (and what was that neXt stuff all about, anyway?
>
> What was NeXT all about? User experience, rock solid software and
> hardware working in harmony. Throw in a few innovations that were 10+
> years ahead of their time (UNIX on desktop, r/w optical, DSP, high
> resolution display, vector imaging model, object oriented framework)
> and you have visionary material. It wasn't until OS X that the rest of
> the world was ready for Jobs' vision.

UNIX on the desktop predates NeXT by at least half a decade.
R/W optical was an impractical flop.
What do you mean by DSP? FPU coprocessors were already used for the
same task, what's in a name?
High resolution dispays massively predate NeXT.
And all windowing systems have been object-based historically, and some of the very earliest were not just object-oriented - but were part of the original invention and development of OO language.

I.e. you're viewing history through NeXT-tinted glasses and have
created an almost completely revisionist history.
I'll grant you display postscript thoough.

Phil 

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