And the finder window layout with the successive columns of listings. I remember that on NeXT workstations in 1993. That’s around the first time I visited a world wide website.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The OS, NeXTStep, would be used as the foundation for OS X when Steve returned to Apple and threw out the entire MacOS codebase due to bugs, legacy cruft, and laughable security.
It’s why macOS has the Dock of icons across the edge of the screen to this day.
mkwt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
and threw out the entire MacOS codebase due to bugs, legacy cruft, and laughable security.
Maybe he shouldn’t have.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Last I checked, the OSX native libraries use ObjectiveC and have system library calls prefixed with
ns_. So, “used as the foundation” is under-selling it a bit. I think they just re-skinned the NextStep GUI to make it resemble OS9 and called it a day.