@mikemathia try that on me. I tend to get recognized when I don’t want to. I use macs and safari browser. I revolutionized the #demoscene in 1995. It’s more fun than you think. #mac#nextstep
I don't know how many of you can be interested, but... If you always wanted a NeXT workstation to play with and, for obvious $$$ reasons, never got one, there's a (semi)new project to clone its desktop environment on Linux
「 Andrea Cunningham wrote, “Part of Steve wanted to prove to others and to himself that Apple wasn’t just luck”
Jobs felt betrayed by what had happened at Apple and his removal from the levers of power and was determined to ensure that NeXT was run exactly as he felt it should be, with him in complete control and answerable to nobody 」
— Another Boring Article
「 In the end NeXT failed as a business, its computers were only bought in small quantities and its giant automated factory, capable of making thousands of machines a month, frequently was manufacturing fewer than 100. Although its status as a revolutionary system with a strong cool factor was undisputed, few people bought the computers or used the software 」
— Another Boring Topic
「 IBM even spent 50 million dollars in October of 1988 to buy a license to use the NeXTStep operating system as the operating system for some of its PCs, potentially replacing DOS, although it never actually used it. As a side note, for all of NeXTSTEP OS’s unfinished state in 1988, it was probably considerably better than IBM’s own OS/2 operating system, which had been updated with a marginal graphical user interface that same month 」
After using #NeXTSTEP/#macOS from 1994-2012, I reached the same conclusion as Ken Thompson: "I've become more and more depressed, and what #Apple is doing to something that should allow you to work is just atrocious... And I have come, within the last month or two, to say, even though I've invested, you know, a zillion years in Apple — I'm throwing it away. And I'm going to Linux. To #Raspbian in particular." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaandEt_pKw&t=3473s
Are there any usability studies out there about the design of older operating systems or GUIs for the likes of OS/2, Irix, CDE, NextSTEP?
You can still see many concepts from that era today but some things have been dropped, others added, some have evolved, while others were simply unique. I’ve seen studies for Win95, where decisions behind taskbar and windowing are explained. Is there anything like that for other OS?