Mac Emulation / Daydream for NeXT

[AltRN8]

While I don't disagree with much of what you've said about Jobs and the issues around NeXT, I think it would be unfair to characterize NeXT as a failure. It definitely was a transformative machine and influenced much that came later on. Mac OS X is basically the latest version of NeXT which is highly used OS. The "World Wide Web" was built on the NeXTStep because it was easy to build such software on this platform. I'll admit I'm a Next fanboy but not so much to deny the problems NeXT had. (Seriously magnesium infused cases?)

That video you linked to was very interesting. I have a copy of that booklet Paul Rand pulled out in the video. It's a pretty cool document about the logo's evolution.

[AltRN8]

"World Wide Web" (later Nexus) was the first browser, but it wasn't very good for a long time, never really popular & then Mosaic came along and people started using that instead.

The HTML standard and approach to the web was invented on the NeXT. The browser wasn't the point the creation of the approach was and the NeXT platform helped enable that representation. Previous to this change we had text based representations like gopher. I loved gopher but the HTML approach was in the end more popular.

[AltRN8]

I just wanted to post a quick thanks to Pentad for posting the original thread. Got a chance to check out the work that's been done and it is really neat. Can't wait to try it out on some of my NeXT hardware.

[AltRN8]

I would say Apple is very lucky they went with NeXT and not with BeOS and that's coming from a guy who loved BeOS (I've got a BeBox to prove it!).

In many ways it was Apple being bought by NeXT not the other way around. I wasn't really an Apple person until Mac OS X (basically because I was such a fan of NeXT). I've been willing to pay the ridiculous apple tax just to use the OS. Fortunately my job has provided many of the machines I use so I've not had to pay that tax often.

I can't agree more with you in regard to the timeline. Jobs was insane about it but to be honest he did have some valid points in the video. They should have taken some of this into consideration before forming the company though so ultimately the unrealistic deadline was his own fault. I've always felt like he targeted the higher ed community because they frankly were not too savvy at the time. His heart wasn't in that space it was just an open market for them to exploit.