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Re:NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and... by yuhong on Sunday June 05, 2016 @02:50PM (#11842428)
MS spent a lot of effort trying to fit Win95 into 4 megs for a reason. I don't think NeXTStep with only 8 megs were a popular configuration, many was upgraded to 16 megs.
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Re:NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and... by pvg on Sunday June 05, 2016 @03:50PM (#11842763)
Win95 didn't fit in 4 megs all that well. But that's neither here nor there since we're in a parallel universe in which MS started working on Nextstep in 1985 and released a consumer OS based on it in 1995. This seems totally plausible. Next Inc was never really making a consumer OS. In 2007, Apple shipped a Nextstep derivative that ran in 128 megs while its desktop (and consumer) counterpart wasn't really happy with anything less than a couple of gigs.
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