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my impression is that the predecessor of OSX, NeXT, was pretty much the OS of choice in sciences for a good ten years…
by Eric_WVGG 9y ago
my impression is that the predecessor of OSX, NeXT, was pretty much the OS of choice in sciences for a good ten years…
- pvg 9y agoIt was certainly its ambition to be an academic workstation originally but lots of other things were. 'OS (or hardware) of choice in sciences' doesn't really reflect reality.
- robotresearcher 9y agoHuh? It’s a market. Not the biggest market, but a real market that spends billions, has extreme needs in some cases, and influences well-trained people who become decision makers in other markets. Why is it not reality?
- pvg 9y agoComment says 'NeXTSTEP wasn't OS of choice in sciences', not what you misread it as.
- jcadam 9y agoBack in college (1998-2002), I had an old, white-bearded CS professor who kept (and actually did work on) an old NeXT Station in his office. He was a little... off.
- cat199 9y agonot really. More like Sun in those days (or maybe SGI or IBM rs6000, possibly HPUX though it was more for business) depending on whatever proprietary things you wanted to run.. but really Sun. from there: linux PC's until OsX, then a mix of both.