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Posted by Jim on 04/14/07 16:35
"Smarty" wrote:
> Jim,
>
> Wasn't the Next machine (the NextCube) based on Motorola processors? From
> wikipedia:
Yep, however the O/S was NeXTSTEP which was ported to several different
architectures, Intel being one of them as noted below:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEXTSTEP>
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NEXTSTEP was the original object-oriented, multitasking operating system
that NeXT Computer developed to run on its proprietary NeXT computers
("black boxes"). NEXTSTEP 1.0 was released on September 18, 1989 after
several previews starting in 1986. The last version, 3.3, was released
in early 1995, by which time it ran not only on Motorola 68000 family
processors, but also IBM PC compatible x86, Sun SPARC, and HP PA-RISC.
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> NeXT's workstation was named the NeXTcube and featured a distinctive case
> designed by frogdesign.[19] It was based on the new 25 MHz Motorola 68030
> Central processing unit (CPU). The Motorola 88000 RISC chip was originally
> considered, but the needed quantity was not available at the time. NeXT
> eventually adopted HP's PA-RISC architecture for the NeXT RISC
> Workstation,[20] an unreleased project which was canceled along with all
> NeXT hardware projects in 1993, though a version of NEXTSTEP was released
> for the PA-RISC architecture.[20]"
> _______________________________________________
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT#1985.E2.80.931986:_Early_years
>
> Smarty
>
> "
> "Jim" wrote in message
> > Spex wrote:
> > [snip]
> >> Adobe have the experience coding for Intel
> >> and it'll be interesting to see whether Apple are at the same level.
> > [snip]
> >
> > I think it must be remembered that the core Apple devs are the old
> > NeXT people, whom have been coding Intel since the 90's when they
> > released NeXTSTEP 3.1.
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Edo ergo sum
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