Mac Emulation / Daydream for NeXT

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http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=340

AMax has 1989 Copyright stamped on its PCB which is way earlier. Amiga and ST weren't real computers though, didn't you know?

I got one of those Amax units.   Friend gave it to me for free but I never used it.  I should probably dig it up from storage somewhere.

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I was just watching a youtube video about NeXTStep OS.   The default windows manager kind of reminders me of WindowMaker which was my preferred windows manager for Xwindows when I was big into Un*x and XFCE wasn't around. .

was just thinking it has 68k code, hmm running on an Amiga possible ?   I know we have NetBSD.. (I love OpenBSD btw)

Edit - opps Ive caught up on the discussions above..   too much work to port

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Guess which one came first

ha looks like NeXTstep, and windowmaker replicated its feel.. according to wikipedia..  

I had no idea..   I loved Windowmaker for yep its elegant feel & look.

actually IM surprised last stable release of Windowmaker is August 2015

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I remember my advanced physics professor ranting about how Jobs said the price would be around $3k for each workstation since that was the feedback NeXT had received about price points from scholars. It shipped at over twice that for a basic unit which my professor said would doom the machine.  True to his word, the physics department never bought a single machine and the machines failed in the marketplace.

I have a SGI O2, would be around mid 90's release.    haha lookup the original  RRP price I think it was around the $10,000 mark back in the day.

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I still use GNUStep/WindowMaker on my little quadcore atom Transformer with 2GB of soldered ram. I love it.

for some reason I stopped using Un*x for workstation purposes.   I didnt like Linux due to dependency hell and love BSD with ports style packages but theres more compatibility and mainstream projects for linux.    Still use it for server side tasks.