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I remember speaking with him once, not knowing he was at a competing company, and first, thanking him for the excellent UI I had the pleasure to use (I had a Ne
by patrickg_zill 10y ago
I remember speaking with him once, not knowing he was at a competing company, and first, thanking him for the excellent UI I had the pleasure to use (I had a NeXT machine on my desk for about 8 months at a job I was at); then asking him if he was available for work (he wasn't).
Gracious guy, and I believe today that the NextStep v3.3 GUI was about the perfect GUI even today; I miss it.
- Esau 10y agoI have to agree. To this day, I still prefer the NextStep UI to the OS X UI.
- kps 10y agoThere were giants in the earth in those days.
- patrickg_zill 10y agoYes, it was called "NeXT Cube 040 Turbo with NeXTDimension board" and it had a Motorola 68040 @ 33Mhz, with a hardware accelerated NeXTDimension board that could run 24bit or 32bit color and had a dedicated i860 or i960 CPU running the Display PostScript interpreter on the card itself. I think, you could take such beasties all the way up to 128MB RAM.