Mac Emulation / Daydream for NeXT

[psxphill]

I wonder if an 040 powered Amiga could make a good go at emulating a similar flavor of NeXT machine.

MacOS was quite a simple operating system & loading and patching the rom was all you really had to do.

NextStep is much more complex. A better option would be to start with an Amiga port of BSD 4.3 and use the Next binaries

[psxphill]

If I remember correctly, the BSD kernel API and userland code grafted onto the MACH kernel used in NeXTstep is significantly older than 4.3BSD, somewhere in the ballpark of 4.2-Net/2 release. Also, you'd have to find a Mach-o binary loader to match it. Doable, but probably not a lot of fun in the long run.

I don't know, blame wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#Unix

I have no idea how fun it would be to run NeXTSTEP. Although you could probably find out by running the x86 version on a PC, 3.1+ or OpenStep.

[psxphill]

The "World Wide Web" was built on the NeXTStep because it was easy to build such software on this platform.

"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.

[psxphill]

If you study  closely the HP PA-RISC releases from the same period, you will appreciate they are basically Hombre without the Amiga chipset nailed on to them.

What do you mean?

Once upon a time (1995-1996) the idea for OS4 was shaped around that model of NeXTSTEP:

That was an unworkable mess.