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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by GeekyBear on Friday July 12, 2024 @11:39AM (#40946580)
Next's APIs were also ported to run on top of Windows NT and Sun's Solaris.

In addition, the entire NextStep OS ran bare metal on several CPU architectures.

> originally ran only on NeXT's Motorola 68k-based workstations and that was then ported to run on 32-bit Intel x86-based "IBM-compatible" personal computers, PA-RISC-based workstations from Hewlett-Packard, and SPARC-based workstations from Sun Microsystems.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep

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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by SoftTalker on Friday July 12, 2024 @11:46AM (#40946639)
Yep, I used to run Apple's (maybe it was still NeXT at the time?) Mail app on Windows NT, I can't recall where I got it, maybe it was part of some goodies included with WebObjects?
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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by dkadams on Friday July 12, 2024 @01:58PM (#40947873)
Yes. WebObjects development was possible on NT due to “YellowBox”. It shipped with ProjectBuilder, EOModler, Mail, and other NeXT apps.

You could even do Objective-C monkeypatching shennigans on YellowBox, which I remember being needed at the time to get the scroll wheels on certain mice to work on YellowBox apps.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/4B800F78-0F7...

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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by evereverever on Monday July 15, 2024 @07:22PM (#40972356)
The YellowBox would have been such a great target. They kept it around for iTunes on Windows and I suspect they still use some version of it.
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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by pjmlp on Friday July 12, 2024 @03:47PM (#40948763)
It were those ports to Sun's Solaris, that influenced Java's design and later on Java EE as well.
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