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Would that have been First Boston? Didn't they wind up buying over a thousand of them at one time? Apparently it was great to create apps.
by mikecane 16y ago
Would that have been First Boston? Didn't they wind up buying over a thousand of them at one time? Apparently it was great to create apps.
- smoody 16y agoNo, it was a different investment bank. They eventually bought one or two NeXT systems, but the developers that championed them were considered 'radicals' within the company. As with many other IBs, this one was a Sun company through and through.
- ams6110 16y agoApparently it was great to create apps. It was Objective-C, Interface Builder, similar tools to what Cocoa is today. All the cool app building tools for the Mac were born on NEXTSTEP.
- rahoulb 16y agoCocoa IS Nextstep - which is why the class names are prefixed NS
- pavlov 16y agoTrivia: actually "NS" stands for "NeXT & Sun". Old NeXT classes had an NX* prefix. (There are still a few of those lingering in Cocoa.) The NS prefix was adopted as part of the NextStep -> OpenStep transition around 1993, when Sun was planning to use OpenStep as their main desktop environment. That never happened because soon Sun got Java religion and dumped OpenStep.
- Synaesthesia 16y agoI didn't know that. In fact everywhere I have read, it is assumed that NS stands for NeXTStep. Thanks!
- rahoulb 16y agoI didnt know that either! Cheers
- jonhendry 16y agoLots of investment banks used NeXT. First Chicago, Bank of America (earlier Nationsbanc, even earlier Chicago Research & Trade), Swiss Bank Corp, UBS, Merrill Lynch. Etc. Plus smaller shops like Soros.