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Re:NeXT Research and Development "Alive and Well" by kylec on Saturday July 30, 2011 @01:07AM (#2824958)
In 1993 it was, anyway
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Re:NeXT Research and Development "Alive and Well" by michaelf on Saturday July 30, 2011 @02:34AM (#2825086)
If you google several of the names from the article, you'll find that many of those engineers are still working on NeXT R&D, although under different product names (OS X and iOS). I wonder if any of them ever imagined that average janes and joes would be running NeXT workstations on their cell phones?
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Re:NeXT Research and Development "Alive and Well" by aheilbut on Saturday July 30, 2011 @02:49AM (#2825104)
The coolest instance of this is that Paul Hegarty taught the Fall 2010 CS193p class.
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Re:NeXT Research and Development "Alive and Well" by pohl on Saturday July 30, 2011 @10:52AM (#2825885)
Instead of taking a brute-force approach to software development, the R&D team concentrates on putting enabling technologies in place that can be leveraged by others.

and

If you want a sneak peak at NEXTSTEP's future, says Hullot, you have only to look a little closer at the present version.

This remains true to this day.

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Re:NeXT Research and Development "Alive and Well" by newman314 on Saturday July 30, 2011 @04:59AM (#2825326)
NeXTStep had this concept of a "Shelf" that I have not seen replicated since.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelf_(computing)

It sure would be nice to have such an option in the Finder.

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Re:NeXT Research and Development "Alive and Well" by frou_dh on Saturday July 30, 2011 @06:44AM (#2825471)
IIRC, "PathFinder" for OS X has that feature.
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Re:NeXT Research and Development "Alive and Well" by sp332 on Saturday July 30, 2011 @09:02AM (#2825670)
@access_denied: I hate to break it to you, but your account is dead. It has been dead for 535 days.
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Re:NeXT Research and Development "Alive and Well" by A-K on Saturday July 30, 2011 @02:32AM (#2825080)
I wonder if any NeXT projects, after so many years, still exist in some pre-release form within Apple R&D.
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Re:NeXT Research and Development "Alive and Well" by bonaldi on Saturday July 30, 2011 @07:35AM (#2825534)
I wonder if YellowBox is still around. I used it last night to compile a little Mac app for Windows XP, and it still makes me chuckle when it works.
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Re:NeXT Research and Development "Alive and Well" by apgwoz on Saturday July 30, 2011 @07:55AM (#2825561)
> Official word is, that the YellowBox for Windows is gone now, though, and AppleComputer revoked any license to develop third-party applications for it.

http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?YellowBox

(as of 2010 -- if you believe the last edited)

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