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In article <421db3ab$0$4076$4d4ebb8e@read.news.nl.uu.net>,
CBee <I.Dont@want.your.spam> wrote:
>David Evans wrote:
>
>> What do you mean? NeXTSTEP won't see any further development, so from
>> that point of view, "nothing" is to be done with it. OTOH, it can still
>> be useful, so "stuff" is to be done with it.
>>
>
>Well, actually I know NeXTSTEP only from the mentioned site, that it was (is?)
>available for a 712. I've never seen it any where.
>
Ahhh. Yes, HPPA support was introduced with 3.2 which came out,
what, October 1993ish? 3.3 was about a year later, I think. There
was no HPPA in 4.2, but I think there was in 4.0PRmumble.
>Your pages make me curious to it. Do you have some internet pointers in where
>and how to get a trial version or where I can see more information?
>
Information is spread all around, I'm afraid, and I don't have any
current links. There is no trial version as it contains material owned
by various organisations. However, 3.3 RISC CDs do show up on Ebay
from time to time.
>What I recall from 10 years ago (or longer) it was a verry prommising system,
>kind of like where/what Apple-s OSX currently is.
>
That's not too surprising, as OS X is basically NeXTSTEP 5.
>while typing this, I have many more questions about it, like how it
>performs and
>what is available for the system. On the other hand, it has to fight with many
>other nice things I always wanted to do...
>
It preforms pretty well on contemporary hardware and flies on modern
iron.
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David Evans dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
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