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Given the development timeframe for NeXTSTEP, I don't think that a managed language would have been a likely choice. Remember, this is when your average barn bu
by Moto7451 13y ago
Given the development timeframe for NeXTSTEP, I don't think that a managed language would have been a likely choice. Remember, this is when your average barn burner workstation came with a 33MHz 386 Class CPU and 4-8MB of memory. The NeXT Computer came with a 25MHz '030 and 8MB of memory.
- pjmlp 13y agoThey could, as Xerox PARC machines were not as powerful and offered: - Lisp OS - Smalltalk OS - Mesa/Cedar (a GC enabled systems programming)