spitfire

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by spitfire 5y ago
Greatest sound card of all. Lost to creative because of some of their underhanded business practices. If you're picking one up now look for the ACE model. It's output only, and has much less interference than the regular models.
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by spitfire 5y ago
So like a smalltalk or lisp based image system. I’m down for that.
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by spitfire 5y ago
> Is there some sense in which this is not a "conspiracy theory Yes, in the sense that Aleksander Dugins foundations of geopolitics exists and is taught in military schools in Russia. It proposes - among other tactics, exactly this
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by spitfire 5y ago
Hopefully they extend this back to NeXTStep interoperability. I would love to be able to run Quantrix and FrameMaker.
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by spitfire 5y ago
I thought you were going to post Steve Henry's stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zDo7hkmCNY There's a great clip of him parallel parking a tail dragger at some fly in on the side of a mountain somewhere in h
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by spitfire 5y ago
The way I view Nextstep is some pragmatic programmers were in awe of Smalltalk. Which isn't surprising everyone was in awe of smalltalk (SJ copied it to make the Mac after all). Disappointed they couldn't have it, they went out, g
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by spitfire 5y ago
Wow. That audio chat was obnoxious. Nerds laughing at themselves about how smart they are (in hindsight). NeXT was attempting to bring OOP programming to the masses, along with some really excellent for the time (and even now) rapid develop
128.
by spitfire 5y ago
No worries. Some people however are hoarding rare software - software that is very likely to cease to exist once their collections fail. But refuse to share or make backups.
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by spitfire 5y ago
Un there actually. I"m looking for the stuff you can't find there. Like Virtuoso 2.0 (freehand 5 on the Mac apparently), and other things. Really if you have any NeXT software you should make copies and share with the world.
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by spitfire 5y ago
Have any software? My Turbostation is looking for more software.
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by spitfire 5y ago
I wonder if there'll be another book written. Along the lines of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
132.
by spitfire 5y ago
You were brain raped. Bill Gates was famous for this. There was even a Silicon Valley episode about the practice.
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by spitfire 5y ago
Yeah. I'll just leave these two here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgCMsSqfR1A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42FIyhCDDB4
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The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk (2020)(wirfs-brock.com)
148 points by spitfire 5y ago|115 comments
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by spitfire 5y ago
What are people using to book/look up train travel? I just tried to find a London to Belgrade route and absolutely none of the planners I found via DDG were capable. They'd all gladly sell me a pass, but none told me what station
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by spitfire 5y ago
What am I missing here? The marketing presentations spoke about 200GB/sec and 400GB/sec parts. Existing CPU's generally have 10s of GB/sec. But I see these parts beating out existing parts by small margins - 100% at best
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by spitfire 5y ago
> I also start every semester off with the opening scene of Hackers - the best hacking movie ever made :) Great soundtrack. Respect.
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by spitfire 5y ago
The dictionary app (and hence its database) may go all the way back to NeXTStep/Openstep. Maybe not all of it. But I wouldn't doubt if bits of it went all the way back to the early days where a fancy dictionary was one of the star
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by spitfire 5y ago
That actually makes a bit of sense. NeXT (which reverse bought and absorbed Apple) was a weird pragmatic/bastard Smalltalk on top of Unix type system. To see that Avie hard worked on smalltalk (as well as microkernels) isn't a sho
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by spitfire 5y ago
These remind me of the group of seven artist Lawren Harris. He painted Glaciers and nature landscapes in a sort of art-deco style. The colour absolutely glows from his paintings. I get that same feeling here, and I love it.
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by spitfire 5y ago
> Dodging taxes. They specialize in dodging taxes. Not really. Their Schtick is to move to a different low cost of living country and live there. Preferably several - one for the summer one of the winter and another for fall/spring
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by spitfire 5y ago
So this gets complicated so Improv 1.0 is available on m68k next hw. Improv 2.0 was only available for windows x86. Lighthouse design quantrix for nextstep is available on m68k, x86, hp-parisc and sun hardware. Then there’s an offshoot of
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by spitfire 5y ago
There never was a lotus improv for non NeXT hardware. Lotus killed NeXT improv basically lay immediately after it came out. What happened was lighthouse design came in and built an exact clone of improv called quantrix. The manuals were int
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by spitfire 5y ago
Not to split hairs here, but lets separate this into a few different traits. Smart, intelligent and cunning. Most dictators are not very intelligent. Just like Donald Trump is not very intelligent. Cunning and with social smarts would be ap
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by spitfire 5y ago
Like some sort of insidious Lotka-Volterra equations!
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by spitfire 5y ago
Exception to this rule was NeXT purchasing Apple for negative $400 million. Most of the NeXT senior staff (jabs, avi, etc) Went on to take over roles at Apple. They also brought in all the NeXT technology and threw out Apples' Nextstep
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by spitfire 5y ago
It's apparently useful for police departments. Or so says every police show ever...
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by spitfire 5y ago
and after that they released a /third/ soundtrack, with songs which were not even in the movie.
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by spitfire 5y ago
Funny thing it was . I consider the current apple to have started with Jobs at NeXT. From Nextstep through to snow leopard they were fantastic and getting better every release. Not so much now, they've found a cash cow and seem to b
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by spitfire 5y ago
So a few weeks ago I started an overnight copy of some files to my APFS encrypted backup disk. I came down in the morning to fine the filesystem corrupted. iBooks won't sync ePub files I add manually. <A bunch of other niggles, too

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