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I don’t buy the CPU argument - NeXT managed that (with what became OS X) on 486-level hardware (68030) in the late 80s. Surely Microsoft and Apple had more res
by ido 5y ago
I don’t buy the CPU argument - NeXT managed that (with what became OS X) on 486-level hardware (68030) in the late 80s.
Surely Microsoft and Apple had more resources to spend on software development than NeXT? NT was great but MS only started selling it to the consumer market with XP.
- cable2600 5y agoXenix ran on 8088 PC/XT systems. I remember now. Unix was stable, DOS/Windows was not. Which is why Steve Jobs used BSD Unix for NextOS.