NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 1: Installation

Re:NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 1: Installation by reaperducer on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:27PM (#22119734)

I think the idea was that you could take a single MO disk around from workstation to workstation and carry your environment around with you.

This philosophy lived on into the Apple years. The reason the original iPods had Firewire connectors on them was so that you could eventually go from Mac to Mac and just boot off of your iPod and continue your work.

It's why a lot of people who worked with Xserve servers always carried iPods with them — the servers had Firewire ports right on the front and you could plug your iPod in and access your files.

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Re:NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 1: Installation by qubex on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @04:00PM (#22121972)

Back in 2003 Apple touted a feature called “Home on iPod” being petr of the then up-coming OS X Panther that would have supposedly allowed one to carry one’s home directory around on an iPod and mount it on any system one could authenticate against.

It was pulled before it was released, however, and never heard from again. As far as I know, no justification was ever given.

https://www.macrumors.com/2003/10/08/pulled-panther-feature-...

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Re:NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 1: Installation by mschaef on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @02:09PM (#22120869)

Now that I think about it, it's also interesting that it's shared with Jef Raskin's Canon Cat. (Which had to be a frustration with Raskin, given that Jobs took over his original Macintosh project and then arranged to have Canon kill the Cat, in relation to Canon's funding of NeXT.)

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