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Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by methehack on Sunday August 21, 2016 @04:11PM (#12332520)
You probably know this, but it's the same stuff -- I would wager a hunk of the original interface builder code written for the NeXT machine runs on your Mac today when you use the interface builder part of xcode (though I haven't looked recently). You probably know this too, but all those classes that begin with the "NS" prefix come from "NeXT Step" -- same stuff, just updated.

It seems likely to me that all these dev tools from 1991 have something to do with why there are > 1M iPhone apps today. That and the enormous market attracting developers...

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Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by stuaxo on Sunday August 21, 2016 @06:46PM (#12333076)
What was in the Next box CPU wise? You would need Rosetta or something like it to run the old binaries... though it would be awesome if someone implemented this (in fact... bring back rosetta, ffs!)
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Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by patrickg_zill on Sunday August 21, 2016 @07:26PM (#12333218)
The original NeXT was Motorola 68030; but performance got decent after they added the 68040 running at either 25Mhz or 33Mhz (which was called the NeXT Mono Turbo if the display was mono or Turbo Color if 4096 colors display).
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Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by dredmorbius on Sunday August 21, 2016 @07:48PM (#12333292)
CPU Motorola 68030 @ 25 MHz, 68882 FPU @ 25 MHz, 56001 digital signal processor (DSP) @ 25 MHz

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_Computer

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