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There never was a lotus improv for non NeXT hardware. Lotus killed NeXT improv basically lay immediately after it came out. What happened was lighthouse design
by spitfire 5y ago
There never was a lotus improv for non NeXT hardware. Lotus killed NeXT improv basically lay immediately after it came out.
What happened was lighthouse design came in and built an exact clone of improv called quantrix. The manuals were interchangeable - I’m actually learning them now.
I bought a boxed copy of improv and quantrix manuals.
It is /excellent/ we really have a lot of excellent ideas in our computing past.
If you want a copy of the lighthouse apps (they gave away licenses when sun bought them in 1996 or so.
) check out next computers.org
They have a file section.
- tssva 5y agoDo you mean a NeXTSTEP version for non NeXT hardware because there was a Windows version?
- jamiek88 5y agoHe means for next os.
- spitfire 5y agoSo this gets complicated so Improv 1.0 is available on m68k next hw. Improv 2.0 was only available for windows x86. Lighthouse design quantrix for nextstep is available on m68k, x86, hp-parisc and sun hardware. Then there’s an offshoot of lighthouse design quantrix which is quantrix modeller written in Java and available for windows and Mac. It costs $2500/year. I’m learning improv on m68k and quantrix(the manuals interchange freely) on m68k/x86.
- Grumbledour 5y agoThanks! It's great to hear quantrix is this similar to improv. I will take a look at it!