Nextstep became Mac OS X. Getting it to run on Apple hardware took time.

I don’t think Nextstep would have run decently even on a Pentium II at 300 MHz given how painful OS X was on G3 and G4 hardware.

i heard some audio interesting software available for it

if successful completion may be nteresting software available for it

i didn’t know Nextestp was object oriented and that’s one of the reasons it was so painfully slow. maybe 486 but perhaps the pentium pro 300mhz?

could Nextestp run on a mac os?

Akismet is a lifesaver, I would have had to shut down years ago, or at least shut off comments, without it. The CPU load of protecting 5,000+ blog posts was the biggest problem I saw. It doesn’t affect the front end all that much but it did slow down the administrative side a lot. Why I have 5,000 blog posts is another question…

Yes I saw the demo. It was an interesting OS with no interesting software available for it. As for OS/2 being buggy, I never had problems with it. And yes, Nextestp was object oriented and that’s one of the reasons it was so painfully slow.

Oh, I could see spam being annoying. Akismet blocks all the spam on our site, but I don’t know if that’s available to you. Sorry about the trolls!

did you see BeOS demonstrate their abilities ? like running multiple video clips and dropping on a book ?

OS/2 iirc had a buggy

didn’t Nextstep have object oriented environment ?

Thank you. I used to leave all posts open for comments indefinitely, and like you, I’d get comments on decade-old posts. But I found an inordinate number of comments I get after a few weeks were spam and/or people looking for someone to argue with so I had to lock it down. My regulars get a chance to comment, and I don’t have to waste energy and effort dealing with trolls. And it gives me a way to give a perk to my regular readers.

Something I’ve taken to in the last year is republishing posts when I revise them, which opens them up for comment again.

Up through 1995, all our home computers used DOS. We were all LAN partiers. In ’95, I started working computer tech support. The first place I worked at, it was all DOS except for one person in the office who had an experimental advance copy of ’95. In ’96, I did tech support on a Win3 machine, while another used OS/2. I dunno if there was a ’95 machine in the office.

It wasn’t until ’97 that ’95 became the standard, when I worked at Medtronic. At that point, it was the clear winner.

By the way, I just discovered your blog, and I like it quite a lot. I wish the ability to comment was left open longer as there are many articles I would like to comment on. Over at my blog, galacticjourney.org, I leave them open indefinitely, and I’ll get comments even a decade after the fact. 🙂

BeOS was interesting but there was so little software for it I didn’t see it as practical. When I wanted a fast computer with no software I could just use my Amiga. I used Nextstep on a 68040 and found it slow, and, again, so little software. If it was slow on the 68040 it wasn’t going to be fast on a 486 either. There was no reason to run Nextstep when I could just run OS/2, which gave me the stability of Nextstep while being way faster and being able to at least run DOS and Windows software.