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Three great things came out of NeXT: Doom, the WWW, and modern Mac OS
by bluedino 7y ago
Three great things came out of NeXT: Doom, the WWW, and modern Mac OS
- saagarjha 7y ago(Mac OS X/OS X/macOS. I normally let these slide, but here it’s important which one you’re talking about.)
- trilinearnz 7y agoAnyone know to what extent was the original Quake was developed on Next as well? I recall the BSP map processing taking place on a networked group of HP Next boxes (like the OP), but think the tooling that was eventually released was all DOS-based.
- bluedino 7y agoThe map tools ran on NeXT: http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/quake/QuakeEd/quake_ed.html http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/quake/QuakeEd/quake_ed.html
- twoodfin 7y agoModern Mac OS => iOS + iPhone, and with that addition to your list you’re looking at literally trillions of dollars annually that owe their markets to innovations that grew from NeXT. I’m sure some of them would have happened anyway in some other form, but that’s still pretty amazing.