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NeXTSTEP was first shown in 1988, before RISC OS 2. I never used Arthur but it was a lot more primitive IIRC. Even the icon bar in RISC OS is less sophisticated
by mattl 2y ago
NeXTSTEP was first shown in 1988, before RISC OS 2. I never used Arthur but it was a lot more primitive IIRC. Even the icon bar in RISC OS is less sophisticated than NeXT’s Dock.
- lproven 2y agoIt was, but the NeXTstep beta 0.8 was after Arthur 1.20, and the icon bar concept was in Arthur. RO's version is less sophisticated, yes, I agree. Highly functional, though. I moderated a talk and discussion by the surviving members of the original RISC OS core team a couple of years ago. I wrote it up here: https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/23/how_risc_os_happened/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/23/how_risc_os_happened/ You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SDL0IwbCc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SDL0IwbCc The claim is from the team lead, Paul Fellows. To paraphrase him: One of the programmers got a job with NeXT, quit, went to California, and took his Archimedes. Lo, the next beta of NeXTstep had an icon bar!
- mattl 2y agoI’ll give it a watch. I had the unusual experience of using RISC OS and NeXTSTEP at roughly the same time from 1991-1996. Until 1996 the only machine I really had that was my own was an Amstrad CPC 464 which had various add-ons and eventually an extra 3.5 inch disk drive attached which made transferring files much easier. For a while I had a cheap MS-DOS luggable and used a serial cable to transfer small text files from the CPC to the Toshiba T1000, eventually getting a slow modem for the CPC.