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Those screenshots are strikingly modern compared to the windows screenshots of the era: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.1x#mediaviewer/File:Windows_2.1.p
by Joeri 12y ago
Those screenshots are strikingly modern compared to the windows screenshots of the era: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.1x#mediaviewer/File:Windows_2.1.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.1x#mediaviewer/File:W...
- noir_lord 12y agoThe NextStep was way ahead on the curve for it's time (which is one of the reasons it failed). I read an awesome piece a while back (and for the life of me I can't remember where) that said if you want to design for the future, estimate what computing power will be available in 10-15 years then buy that for your developers. In that project I think they spent 186,000 per machine per user on average but they where designing software light years ahead of its time.
- frozenport 12y agoI don't think it worked out for them? The systems were way to expensive for most users.
- noir_lord 12y agoThe NextStep didn't work out for a bunch of reasons cost been one of the major ones. The other project wasn't trying to create a product they where trying to capture a sense of what hardware would be on every desk in 10 years and design for that, in effect skating to where the puck will be rather than where it is. I wish I could remember where I read it :|.