R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p>New <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> post: Desperately Seeking Preview.app</p><p><a href="https://rldane.space/desperately-seeking-previewapp.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rldane.space/desperately-seeking-previewapp.html</a></p><p>361 words</p><p>Kind of a follow-up to <a href="https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01K25QPRF7W6TP8AG03FQZ8SKB" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">yesterday's blost</a>, but also informative for those who work with PDFs in Linux.</p><p>Thanks to <a href="https://infinitemac.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://infinitemac.org</a> for enabling me to get the screenshot of Preview.app on NeXTStep 1.0. So awesome!!!!</p><p>cc: my wonderful <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/chorus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chorus</span></a>: <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@joel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>joel</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@dm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dm</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@sotolf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sotolf</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@thedoctor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>thedoctor</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://merveilles.town/@pixx" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pixx</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@orbitalmartian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>orbitalmartian</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@adamsdesk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>adamsdesk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@krafter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>krafter</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@roguefoam" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>roguefoam</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@clayton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>clayton</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@giantspacesquid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>giantspacesquid</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/@Twizzay" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Twizzay</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedi.stfn.pl/@stfn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>stfn</span></a></span></p><p>(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)</p><p><em>P.S., I <strong>really</strong> hope someone gets the 1980s movie reference. Even though I've never seen said movie.</em> 😄</p><p><a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/100daystooffload" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysToOffload</span></a> #50 <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/fifty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FIFTY</span></a>! <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/halfwaythere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HalfwayThere</span></a></p><p><a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/rldanewriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rlDaneWriting</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/blost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blost</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Macintosh</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/next" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeXT</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/nextstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTStep</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Retrocomputing</span></a> (a little) <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/infinitemac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfiniteMac</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/previewapp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PreviewApp</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/pdf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDF</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/pdfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDFs</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a></p>
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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://hear-me.social/@tylerknowsnothing" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tylerknowsnothing</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://bitbang.social/@1Bit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>1Bit</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/nextstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NextStep</span></a> as well! It's fantastic!</p>
Variety<p>Cannes Critics’ Week Unveils Next Step Jury, Expands Filmmaker Initiative for 2025<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Variety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Variety</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Global" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Global</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CannesCriticsWeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CannesCriticsWeek</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NextStep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NextStep</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StefanoCentini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StefanoCentini</span></a></p><p><a href="https://variety.com/2025/film/news/cannes-critics-week-next-step-jury-1236378138/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">variety.com/2025/film/news/can</span><span class="invisible">nes-critics-week-next-step-jury-1236378138/</span></a></p>
Dr. Matt Lee (1800www.com)<p>Does this work? I’d make it look better too. </p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/openstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openstep</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/nextstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nextstep</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/stone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stone</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@mtconleyuk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mtconleyuk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Benhm3" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Benhm3</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@maxleibman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>maxleibman</span></a></span> yeah, ask <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oxytodon.com/@fuchsiii" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fuchsiii</span></a></span> how many hours she invested into making a date & time picker across all <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a>'s still maintained OSes that doesn't look like some <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/X11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>X11</span></a> on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NeXTstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTstep</span></a>-style uglyness!</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@sven" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sven</span></a></span> I wished <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a>.would.release proper documentation re: <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/3rdPartyOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3rdPartyOS</span></a> support or at least have some good way to boot stuff that isn't their bespoke <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Darwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Darwin</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NextStep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NextStep</span></a> +<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a> distro aka. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a>.</p>
Blake Patterson<p>Thinking of NEXTSTEP this morning...I'd guess many aren't aware of the unusual color display arrangement. </p><p>The NeXTstation, which was the first "affordable" color solution for NEXTSTEP, has a 16-bit framebuffer, but instead of rendering the desktop in 65,536 colors (as per Windows or Mac hardware, say), it rendered in 12-bit color with 4-bits of alpha channel (transparency). </p><p>That means it had a palette of 4096 colors, with all colors available at once on the display (not like, say, the Amiga or Apple IIgs with a 4096 color palette, but video modes with a small subset of those colors available (yes, yes, HAM mode excluded). Additionally, anything on the screen had 16 levels of opacity available. </p><p>It's interesting to see in person, on the actual hardware (especially on a good LCD display). With dithering, it looks very close to 24-bit truecolor. </p><p>(The NeXT Dimension color board for the Cube allowed 24-bit color with 8-bits alpha, but that was not so frequently used -- less so than most NeXT hardware even...)</p><p>But that's not nearly the weirdest that NEXTSTEP-capable hardware got, when it came to color video display...</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NeXT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeXT</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NEXTSTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NEXTSTEP</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NeXTstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTstation</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NeXTCube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTCube</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/OS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OS</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/OpenStep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStep</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/DisplayPostScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DisplayPostScript</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/PostScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PostScript</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/GUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GUI</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNIX</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MC68K" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MC68K</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/computinghistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computinghistory</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/SteveJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SteveJobs</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a></p>
Blake Patterson<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bitbang.social/@bitnacht" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bitnacht</span></a></span> Good point, re: the busy bee.</p><p>As for the spinning disc (or "beachball"), it got its start in NEXTSTEP as a greyscale spinning magneto-optical disc rendering indicating the system is busy / data is loading, which was seen quite often on the early NeXT Cube, as it came with no HD but only an MO drive, and it used that drive for _swap_, if you can imagine... </p><p>That spinning disc became color when NEXTSTEP gained a color display on later hardware, and from there it evolved into the spinning "beachball" we know today (macOS being structurally based upon and evolved from NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP).</p><p>EDIT: Oh, I think I misread - you are talking about the busy mouse pointer icon in Windows, I think. I'm not sure of its specific history. Apologies.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NeXT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeXT</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NEXTSTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NEXTSTEP</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/GUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GUI</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/icons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>icons</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/screenshots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>screenshots</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lcamtuf</span></a></span> NS stands for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NextStep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NextStep</span></a>, m8!</p><p>This ain't like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NSAKEY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NSAKEY</span></a> ...</p>
Eugenia L<p>Haiku, the little OS that could. The open source version of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeOS</span></a>, an OS that felt like it had a soul (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> anyone?). Run easily on a virtual machine.</p><p>Little known fact: while the bosses came from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a>, the principal engineers of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeOS</span></a> came from NeXT, and the younger ones that "graduated" from that experience ended up becoming the principal ones behind <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> (after a quick sting at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PalmOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalmOS</span></a>).</p><p>In Silicon Valley, everything's connected.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/operatingsystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>operatingsystems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nextstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nextstep</span></a></p>
Computer History Museum 🇸🇮<p>⌨⬛ This is the NeXT computer. Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau used it at CERN to set up the first web server, id Software developed games like Doom and Quake on it, and at Slovenian daily newspaper Delo they used it to digitize the entire newspaper production process.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computermuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computermuseum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computerhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computerhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/slovenia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slovenia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ljubljana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ljubljana</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwareheritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwareheritage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/digitalheritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalheritage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nextstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nextstep</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/museo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>museo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/next" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>next</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintagecomputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nextinc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nextinc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nextcomputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nextcomputer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oldcomputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oldcomputer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/internethistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internethistory</span></a></p>
Jeff ArmstrongStupid <a class="hashtag" href="https://toot.rainbow-100.com/tag/nextstep" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nextstep</a>…
Fred Bellaiche<p>The 3D-printed case just arrived from PCBWay. So happy about what this NeXTStep on a Raspberry Pi5 projet is turning into ! <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/nextstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nextstep</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/raspberrypi5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>raspberrypi5</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/3DPrinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3DPrinting</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/previous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>previous</span></a></p>
Ken Case<p>This week, someone asked our tech support team why there's a low-resolution image of a moose included within the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.omnigroup.com/@OmniWeb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>OmniWeb</span></a></span> 3 app for NeXTSTEP.</p><p>I explained that when we were working on OmniWeb 2 (back in February '96, a year and a half before google.com was registered), we added HTML options for different list bullets, and two of the list bullet options we added were "moose" and "squirrel”.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NeXTSTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTSTEP</span></a></p>
Eugenia L<p>Why does this cheap, NOKIA feature phone need 64 MB of RAM? <a href="https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_3210-12990.php" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gsmarena.com/nokia_3210-12990.</span><span class="invisible">php</span></a></p><p>Consider <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BeOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeOS</span></a>, it could run a full desktop OS in less than 32 MB of RAM. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NeXTSTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTSTEP</span></a> needed 8 originally. Yes, these are old OSes, but it's not like this phone does anything much more complex, apart the networking stack.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nokia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nokia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/phone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phone</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a></p>
Matthew Sparby<p>I want a proper ANSI color terminal for NeXT computers. The only apps from back in the day are lost to the sands of time. I contacted the author of one and he is no longer able to generate license codes, rendering it useless.</p><p>I think the best option would be to backport the Terminal app from GNUstep but my rudimentary programming skills wouldn't even get me started. I know there are others who would like such a thing. Maybe we could pitch in and pay a professional to do it. But how would we find such a person?</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/NeXTstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTstep</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/OpenStep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStep</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ObjectiveC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ObjectiveC</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/GNUstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNUstep</span></a></p>
Eugenia L<p>I've been playing with the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WindowMaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WindowMaker</span></a> version of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> recently, just to remember the old, good <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NextSTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NextSTEP</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSTEP</span></a> era. I used to have a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NeXTStation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTStation</span></a> but I sold it locally for $300 just before I left US for Greece. It could probably fetch thousands on eBay, but I didn't want to deal with shipping such a heavy item.</p><p>Ah, I miss the old <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a>. Back when there was actually room to innovate in ways that were revolutionary, and not just additive.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stevejobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stevejobs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gnustep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gnustep</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgia</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@dalias" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dalias</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://troet.cafe/@Tionisla" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Tionisla</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ariadne</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@sertonix" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sertonix</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@leftpaddotpy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>leftpaddotpy</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@dysfun" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dysfun</span></a></span> </p><p>I do acknowledge the problem and ideally we'd all just follow <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/UnixV3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnixV3</span></a> /#SUS4 spec everywhere...</p><p>I do want to come as close as I can without bricking stuff or having to redo the userland myself from scratch in <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.space/@OS1337" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>OS1337</span></a></span> ... </p><p>And yes, as <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.jp/@landley" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>landley</span></a></span> pointed out, monopolies are always bad and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> as good as it is basically turned <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a>'s and other <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a>-esque OSes into rounding errors [aside from <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a>'s <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Darwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Darwin</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NeXTstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTstep</span></a> + <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LLVM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLVM</span></a> aka. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> ]...</p>
Helge Heß<p>"Please select the items that you want to install". Of course I want the GNU source! (deselected by default)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NeXTstep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTstep</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenStep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStep</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YellowBox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YellowBox</span></a> for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a></p>
Gödel Escher Spock🦿<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://appdot.net/@infodriveway" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>infodriveway</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@mihaip" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mihaip</span></a></span> </p><p>Please, please can someone talk to Stephen Wolfram and get him to agree to let them put the last copy of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Mathematica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mathematica</span></a> that ran on <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NeXTSTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeXTSTEP</span></a> in the image.</p>
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