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I think a Smalltalk-based version of the NeXT computer would've killed it as an internet device. With the Unix base and C compiler, NeXT users could join Usenet
by canucker2016 3y ago
I think a Smalltalk-based version of the NeXT computer would've killed it as an internet device. With the Unix base and C compiler, NeXT users could join Usenet et al. when the device was introduced with a few downloads and make invocations (after the initial diehards did the grunt work of porting).
- nl 3y agoNeXT already was a killer Internet device. TBL invented the WWW on it after all.
- canucker2016 3y agoNope - if NeXT arrives as a Smalltalk-based device, much open-source/internet software does NOT get ported to run on NeXT. A few years later, TBL picks some other workstation to develop WWW.