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I don’t know about nextstep but macOS had all this stuff when I first used it 20+ years ago. It featured compositing rendering, had the apps, supported ppc/x64
by goalieca 2y ago
I don’t know about nextstep but macOS had all this stuff when I first used it 20+ years ago. It featured compositing rendering, had the apps, supported ppc/x64 in an app image, had a microkernel. I even remember it got an emulator for running ppc code on an x64.
The newest macOS still needs more memory and suffer bloat but 8GB is still perfectly useable if you avoid google chrome. 8GB is also perfectly usable for Linux too.
- skydhash 2y agoMy SO's laptop is an intel MBA with 8GB of ram. Everything's fine until Google Chrome starts (some work tools). Even if the cpu is not as efficient as the m-series, it runs quite well, even with the tropical weather. But launch Chrome and you have a toaster.
- mike_hearn 2y agoYes but OS X was widely considered unusably slow for the first few versions. Also OS X was only partly a microkernel. Things like the filesystem and network stack ran and still do run in kernel space.