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NextStep was awesome but the computers were high-end expensive workstations. Windows 95 works on a 486 without FPU.
by hyakosm 6y ago
NextStep was awesome but the computers were high-end expensive workstations. Windows 95 works on a 486 without FPU.
- flowerlad 6y agoCheck out the hardware info in this screenshot: https://infinitediaries.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/NeXTStep-Screenshot.png https://infinitediaries.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/NeXTS...
- madflame991 6y agoYou don't need an fpu at all to draw those bezels do you?!
- Tagbert 6y agoNo, but the Nextstep UI was generated with PostScript, so lots of floating point and rasterizing. It basically treated the screen like a PDF.
- fsiefken 6y agoexactly. it would be a bit anachronistic but you could conceivably run NeXTSTEP on a 486 without a FPU right now https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace
- bitwize 6y ago"High end expensive workstations" with 25-MHz 680x0 processors. OpenStep ran on a 486 without FPU.