quote:Originally posted by Billy Gates: Mac Comrade Captain:well I wouldn't say its unbearable, but my 1.7 Athlon is way faster in Windows and Linux, although, those aren't really comparable systems. I got 640 RAM. Its way faster than my 600 iBook but I wish it was faster. Takes like 20 seconds just to open Photoshop, and takes a couple bounces to open any browser. The worst program is iPhoto. Damn that thing is slow. I also run it at 1600x1200 which is really hard, big windows minimize sort of choppy. At 1280x1024 everything is smooth, but still same operating speed. I like the realestate. Hell, my dock doesn't even fit on a 1280x1024 screen without being made smaller.So really, the NeXT systems are dead slow. I actually wanted to ask what the difference between openstep and nextstep are. At blackhole inc they give you the choice on everything between openstep and nextstep. do you happen to know the difference?[ April 21, 2003: Message edited by: Billy Gates: Mac Comrade Captain ]
quote: You may be able to purchase a copy through used computer resellers (or via the comp.sys.next newsgroups). The consensus seems to be that NextStep 3.3 is a good choice for black hardware and that OpenStep 4.2 is a better choice for later architectures (Intel, Sparc), but OpenStep runs on black hardware also. (I ran 3.3 on Nextstations and 4.2 on a Sparc 5.) (But now I run 10.1 on a 500mHz/G3 PM8600!)
quote:Originally posted by chaosforages:its quite obvoiusly why this NeXT question was in the apple section, OSX is based off of NeXTSTEP
quote:Originally posted by Webmaster:I wouldn't say *nobody* has a NeXT machine. I do.
quote:Originally posted by The Muffin Man:OS X is based off of the "Mach" kernel, which was part of NeXTStep, and later OpenStep.
quote:Originally posted by Billy Gates: Mac Comrade Captain:but my 1.7 Athlon is way faster in Windows and Linux
quote:Originally posted by psyjax: plain 'ol psyjax: I wish I could turn off the eye-candy.
quote:Originally posted by The Muffin Man:Just boot to OS 9 (All OS 9 is, is OS X w/o the shiny stuff. If you have carbonlib.)
quote:Originally posted by psyjax: plain 'ol psyjax:Nothing could be farther from the truth. OSX never crashes for one thing, it multitasks amazingly, and it's guts are made of UNIX.All carbon lib. does is give you access to Navigation Servecis which in tern is a bridge to carbonizing apps for OSX.Now, if OSX had the option of putting the classic interface back on, Id do it in a heart beat. I mean, for speed purposes is all.
quote:if NeXT* doesn't run on a macintosh, i move that somebody drop this thread into the 'Other OSs' section please.