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It 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 functi
by lproven 2y ago
It 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.