PHP was also originally developed on the NeXT cube
Steve Jobs unveiled the NeXT Computer on this day in 1988 — 'The Cube' would be used to develop the WWW, Doom, and Quake
Submitted 2 days ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
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blave@lemmy.world 2 days ago
TomMasz@piefed.social 2 days ago
Everyone I knew, including me, wanted one but couldn’t afford them.
b_tr3e@feddit.org 2 days ago
Yes. I developed a weakness for ancient workstations in the early 2000s and had all sort of shit. A few SUNs, SGIs (Octane, e320, Indigo2), an IBM multiprocessor machine (with distinct Xeon CPUs) and HPs but I could never get my hands on a next.
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
90s Unix workstations are so damn COOL!
SGI Indigo, Sun Sparc station, NeXT Cube, IBM RS6000 and others are just so COOL!
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I was at the NeXT presentation in Paris by Jobs (still got the t-shirt somewhere). Later I got to play with a NeXT station they lent us as our offices were next to theirs. It was a fun machine but the existing systems were too entrenched and it didn’t really bring anything different enough (and there wasn’t much software available).
tenchiken@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
I still have a fully maxed out 68040 with the dimension board and display, long with the grey screen.
Everything for it except the printer (crap anyway) and the floptical (heads rotted and cap damage).
Love that machine despite shortcomings.
I’m probably going to swap in a bluescsi or similar here shortly to get something better than the Fireball drive I put in around 2002. Need to check the caps on the boards too for leakage.
vane@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We haven’t moved much since then. People still scroll internet and mostly play FPS games.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 days 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.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago
Maybe he shouldn’t have.
mkwt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.