This is one of those things that I’d have nerdy arguments about with my nerdy friends in middle school.
Dude, shut up, the Amiga is totally better. Cooperative multitasking is lame. Have you seen HAM mode??
Windows NT for Power Macintosh
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Re: Windows NT for Power Macintosh
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can’t think of a better acqui-hire than NeXT + Steve Jobs
For sure, it was pretty clearly the right call at the time and objectively so with the benefit of hindsight. But BeOS was just too good to be allowed (forced, really) to die on the vine the way that it did.
No need for hindsight. BeOS is still alive. A Haiku for you.
Re: Windows NT for Power Macintosh
#53Man, I loved Windows NT back in the day. It was light enough that I could run it on fairly low end late-90s hardware, and it was substantially more stable than Windows 95.
Re: Windows NT for Power Macintosh
#54Nostalgia reminds me of this: https://lowendmac.com/2014/next-openstep-and-the-triumphant-... Amelio and the rest of his senior staff began searching for a way out. They needed a new operating system to buoy their attempts to compete with the Wintel juggernaut. The same search had taken place several times before, but now the company was desperate. Limited Options Ultimately the list of possible targets was narrowed…
Why was A/UX not in the running, it was already written? Just add some polish.
Re: Windows NT for Power Macintosh
#55Re: Windows NT for Power Macintosh
#56Nostalgia reminds me of this: https://lowendmac.com/2014/next-openstep-and-the-triumphant-... Amelio and the rest of his senior staff began searching for a way out. They needed a new operating system to buoy their attempts to compete with the Wintel juggernaut. The same search had taken place several times before, but now the company was desperate. Limited Options Ultimately the list of possible targets was narrowed…
What I'd give for a glimpse of the timeline where Apple bought Be instead of NeXT.
While I LOVE LOVE LOVED BeOS. It resonated with me and it was a great experience...it wasn't multiuser and didn't have some stuff that I forget, but seemed necessary for a system to have long-term success. But mam did it cut out the cruft and wring out ALL of the HP of the hardware of the time.
Re: Windows NT for Power Macintosh
#57how far away is it from being a (even as a joke) daily driver?
considering how there's basically zero software for PPC Windows even if it were running smoothly, very far
Re: Windows NT for Power Macintosh
#58Re: Windows NT for Power Macintosh
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dunno why this is getting downvoted. Modern Windows is still very much a Windows NT derivitive.
Is it a derivative? I'd say it's the latest version of Windows NT.
It’s the same codebase that was my point. Whether it’s still called Windows NT or whether that name died in the 90s can probably be argued either way.
Re: Windows NT for Power Macintosh
#60Nostalgia reminds me of this: https://lowendmac.com/2014/next-openstep-and-the-triumphant-... Amelio and the rest of his senior staff began searching for a way out. They needed a new operating system to buoy their attempts to compete with the Wintel juggernaut. The same search had taken place several times before, but now the company was desperate. Limited Options Ultimately the list of possible targets was narrowed…
Why was A/UX not in the running, it was already written? Just add some polish. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX
A/UX runs on 68k NuBus machines, not PowerPC PCI ones.