Dr. Matt Lee is at hireme.fyi<p>Does this work? I’d make it look better too. </p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/openstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openstep</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/nextstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nextstep</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/stone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stone</span></a></p>
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Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@mtconleyuk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mtconleyuk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Benhm3" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Benhm3</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@maxleibman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>maxleibman</span></a></span> yeah, ask <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oxytodon.com/@fuchsiii" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fuchsiii</span></a></span> how many hours she invested into making a date & time picker across all <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a>'s still maintained OSes that doesn't look like some <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/X11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>X11</span></a> on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NeXTstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTstep</span></a>-style uglyness!</p>
Eric Bariaux<p>My first official non-student job was developing custom (mission-critical as they called it) applications with/for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NeXTSTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTSTEP</span></a>. This plaque is a souvenir from that era.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThrowbackThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThrowbackThursday</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@sven" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sven</span></a></span> I wished <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a>.would.release proper documentation re: <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/3rdPartyOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>3rdPartyOS</span></a> support or at least have some good way to boot stuff that isn't their bespoke <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Darwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Darwin</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NextStep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NextStep</span></a> +<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a> distro aka. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a>.</p>
Blake Patterson<p>Thinking of NEXTSTEP this morning...I'd guess many aren't aware of the unusual color display arrangement. </p><p>The NeXTstation, which was the first "affordable" color solution for NEXTSTEP, has a 16-bit framebuffer, but instead of rendering the desktop in 65,536 colors (as per Windows or Mac hardware, say), it rendered in 12-bit color with 4-bits of alpha channel (transparency). </p><p>That means it had a palette of 4096 colors, with all colors available at once on the display (not like, say, the Amiga or Apple IIgs with a 4096 color palette, but video modes with a small subset of those colors available (yes, yes, HAM mode excluded). Additionally, anything on the screen had 16 levels of opacity available. </p><p>It's interesting to see in person, on the actual hardware (especially on a good LCD display). With dithering, it looks very close to 24-bit truecolor. </p><p>(The NeXT Dimension color board for the Cube allowed 24-bit color with 8-bits alpha, but that was not so frequently used -- less so than most NeXT hardware even...)</p><p>But that's not nearly the weirdest that NEXTSTEP-capable hardware got, when it came to color video display...</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NeXT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeXT</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NEXTSTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NEXTSTEP</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NeXTstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTstation</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NeXTCube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTCube</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/OS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OS</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/OpenStep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStep</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/DisplayPostScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DisplayPostScript</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/PostScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostScript</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/GUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GUI</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UNIX</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MC68K" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MC68K</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/computinghistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computinghistory</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/SteveJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SteveJobs</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a></p>
Blake Patterson<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bitbang.social/@bitnacht" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bitnacht</span></a></span> Good point, re: the busy bee.</p><p>As for the spinning disc (or "beachball"), it got its start in NEXTSTEP as a greyscale spinning magneto-optical disc rendering indicating the system is busy / data is loading, which was seen quite often on the early NeXT Cube, as it came with no HD but only an MO drive, and it used that drive for _swap_, if you can imagine... </p><p>That spinning disc became color when NEXTSTEP gained a color display on later hardware, and from there it evolved into the spinning "beachball" we know today (macOS being structurally based upon and evolved from NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP).</p><p>EDIT: Oh, I think I misread - you are talking about the busy mouse pointer icon in Windows, I think. I'm not sure of its specific history. Apologies.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NeXT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeXT</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NEXTSTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NEXTSTEP</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/GUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GUI</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/icons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>icons</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/screenshots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>screenshots</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
XLBilly<p>Emacs 19 running on OPENSTEP 4.2. Emulated on 86box.</p><p>Note that OPENSTEP 4.2's installation CD comes with emacs 18 which can only be used in the terminal. The one with gui support can be found in <a href="https://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=NeXT/Cube-Station/OPENSTEP/Apps/EMACS" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.</span><span class="invisible">php?folder=NeXT/Cube-Station/OPENSTEP/Apps/EMACS</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Emacs</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NeXTSTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTSTEP</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/86box" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>86box</span></a></p>
ada<p>Operating System Emulationen of historical Mac OS, Mac OS X or NeXTStep from the 1980s, 1990s, early 2000s, or your own custom versions of this systems, as a Webapp in your Browser:</p><p><a href="https://infinitemac.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">infinitemac.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@mihaip" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mihaip</span></a></span> - <a href="https://blog.persistent.info" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">blog.persistent.info</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/GUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GUI</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgia</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/timecapsule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>timecapsule</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macos</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/nextstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nextstep</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/osx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>osx</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/aqua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aqua</span></a></p>
oevl<p>Another <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GlobalTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalTalk</span></a> goal achieved, connected an emulated NeXT Cube running CAPer v8 (via Previous) to my AppleTalk zone by way of a MacIP gateway running on a Raspberry Pi (via MacIp.net). Soon I will be serving a public folder, so peeps in this internetwork can see this rare server icon on their Mac desktops. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NexTSTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NexTSTEP</span></a></p>
Regionales Retro-Rechenzentrum<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rl_dane</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>NanoRaptor</span></a></span> <a href="https://www.openpa.net/nextstep_pa-risc.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openpa.net/nextstep_pa-risc.ht</span><span class="invisible">ml</span></a></p><p>NeXTSTEP on a 712/100XC is quite fast. For some special video modes of the HP 712/715, NeXTSTEP provided specific support, e.g. the 4096-color-virtual-million-color-modes.</p><p><a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/parisc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parisc</span></a> <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/nextstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nextstep</span></a></p>
Wesley Moore<p>TIL via the diagram in this post that original DOOM was developed on NeXT machines.</p><p><a href="https://fabiensanglard.net/fastdoom/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fabiensanglard.net/fastdoom/in</span><span class="invisible">dex.html</span></a></p><p>Wikipedia:</p><p>> Doom was written largely in the C programming language, with a few elements in assembly language. The developers used NeXT computers running the NeXTSTEP operating system.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/NeXTSTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTSTEP</span></a></p>
Wolfgang Stief<p>»Die Kooperation von NeXT und SunSoft mit dem Ziel der Festlegung eines offenen Standards für objektorientierte Entwicklungs- und Betriebssysteme auf der Basis von NEXTSTEP wird die Verbreitung objektorientierter Technologie deutlich beschleunigen.«</p><p>Quelle: Offene Systeme, Band 3 Nr. 1, Februar 1994<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nextstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nextstep</span></a></p>
awb<p>I am writing the second part of my blog post on man-pages and I am trying to get to the bottom of the origin of the MANPAGER variable. It seems like it may have appeared as a modification to the 4.3BSD man command in NeXTSTEP some time between 1987 and 1989. It didn't have PAGER because the import of 4.3BSD-Tahoe to the code base didn't happen until 1989.</p><p>Does anybody have any firsthand knowledge about this? Did it maybe show up somewhere else before NeXTSTEP?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/nextstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nextstep</span></a></p>
Krishna Draws✏️<p>This week, I wrote about InfiniteMac, a brower-based emulator for running classic Mac OS and NeXTStep operating systems.</p><p><a href="https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/97134-infinitemac-a-browser-based-journey-into-classic-macos-and-nextstep-operating-systems/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=infinitemac-a-browser-based-journey-into-classic-macos-and-nextstep-operating-systems" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eshop.macsales.com/blog/97134-</span><span class="invisible">infinitemac-a-browser-based-journey-into-classic-macos-and-nextstep-operating-systems/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=infinitemac-a-browser-based-journey-into-classic-macos-and-nextstep-operating-systems</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mac</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nextstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nextstep</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Rainer "friendica" Sokoll<a href="https://friendica.sokoll.com/search?tag=Umzugskartonfund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Umzugskartonfund</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.sokoll.com/search?tag=Nextstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nextstep</span></a>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lcamtuf</span></a></span> NS stands for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NextStep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NextStep</span></a>, m8!</p><p>This ain't like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NSAKEY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NSAKEY</span></a> ...</p>
Mathew Thomas<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Life</span></a> is a game of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/chess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chess</span></a>.<br>You cannot undo the moves.<br>But, you can make the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nextstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nextstep</span></a> better.</p>
Fifo™<p>anybody remember <a href="https://fedi.fifo-f.eu/tags/NeXTSTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTSTEP</span></a> / <a href="https://fedi.fifo-f.eu/tags/OPENSTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OPENSTEP</span></a>?</p>
Window Maker Live<p>The NeXT hardware emulator Previous 3.6 has been released. </p><p><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/previous/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sourceforge.net/projects/previ</span><span class="invisible">ous/</span></a></p><p>Updated i386, amd64, and arm64 Debian packages are available at <a href="https://wmlive.rumbero.org/repo/pool/main/p/previous/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wmlive.rumbero.org/repo/pool/m</span><span class="invisible">ain/p/previous/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wmlive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wmlive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nextstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nextstep</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openstep</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gnustep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gnustep</span></a></p>
drwx<p>I'm morphing my <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Xfce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xfce</span></a> layout into a <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/NextStep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NextStep</span></a> look and really liking it so far...</p>
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