Re: NeXT step Openstep??

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

On 1 Apr 1998 16:32:53 GMT, GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH (Henrik
'Ratte' Gudat) wrote:

|>> they are operating systems for NeXT machines...  i think OpenStep is a
|>> version that is ported to other platforms.
|>
|>NextStep is the OPENSTEP (I'm not yelling, that's how it's written)
|>implementation for NeXT computers. OPENSTEP is also available for Suns and has
|>been nuked very recently. This particularly sad because it was very well done.
|>The OPENSTEP implementation for Suns is called OpenStep.

thanx for setting me straight on that one...  :)

|>Rhapsody is based on NextStep. This one is great stuff. People who hate Apple
|>usually hate Rhapsody as well, regardless of the fact that NextStep/Rhapsody is
|>one of the few great things that can come across a programmer's life.
|>(I'm not saying everyone has to love it, just admitting Jobs' employees have
|>accomplished something useful would be sufficient.)

this is what i've heard, but somebody was ranting about how Rhapsody
was dead.  i wonder if that's true, or if Apple (read: Jobs) is just
planning to kill off the version for Intel machines....

what i've heard about Rhapsody is certainly impressive.  i'm very
interested in seeing what happens.

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William Smith
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