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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #omniweb #nextstep #next #nextcube

Catch of the Day: Greetings from the Forefather of the Web! 🧊

Hey Retro Fans!
Hold on to your hats because last night we had a visit from absolute IT royalty on our server. Our bouncer logged this magical combination:

OmniWeb 3.1rc1 on a NeXTSTEP system!

Let that sink in for a moment. NeXTSTEP is the operating system Steve Jobs developed after he (temporarily) left Apple. And even more importantly: It was exactly such a NeXT system (the famous NeXTcube) on which Tim Berners-Lee programmed the very first web server and the first web browser in the world at CERN in 1990!

The fact that someone today is using NeXTSTEP and the legendary OmniWeb browser (which was developed exclusively for this platform in 1995) to find their way onto the modern internet via FrogFind is a goosebump moment for any tech historian. This isn't just retro—this is time travel to the architectural roots of Mac OS X and the World Wide Web itself.

A reverent toast to that magnificent black box cube!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸

"Previous is a NeXT Computer emulator based on the Atari emulator Hatari. It uses the latest m68k emulation core from WinUAE and the i860 emulator from Jason Eckhardt. Previous works on all systems which are supported by the SDL3 library."

https://previous.nextcommunity.net

#previous #wmlive #nextstep #gnustep

Nach dem Festival ist vor dem nächsten Karriereschritt. 👀

Du willst Verantwortung übernehmen, etwas bewegen und die Zukunft mitgestalten?
Dann komm ins Team des BMI. 🤝

👉 Jetzt informieren und durchstarten. Hier geht’s zu unseren Stellenausschreibungen: https://www.bmi.bund.de/DE/service/stellenangebote/stellenangebote-node.html

#Bundesinnenministerium #BMI #Karriere #Jobs #Coachella #NextStep

#SolucionarioDelProgramador #GNU_linux : Entrada de datos en #ObjectiveC

#programming #programacion #OOP #Linux #NextStep #OpenStep

https://ibolcode.net/roor/2026-04-entrada-de-datos--lenguaje-objective-c

NeXTStep/OpenStep

https://inkwell.social/tim/nextstepopenstep

The #Previous packages at wmlive.rumbero.org/repo/pool/main/p/previous/ have been updated to version 4.1-r1777.
The binary packages were built for target release Debian/Trixie and CPU architectures i386, amd64, and arm64.

#wmlive #nextstep #openstep #debian #next

@hyperjeff

A more general example might be, which window you should be looking at in the first place.

For me, one of the features most sorely lost in the transformation of the NeXT UI to MacOS was the clear distinction between main, key, and “other” windows/panels…

#NEXTSTEP
#UserInterface
#MacOS

A fascinating look back at 1994: Bud Tribble explaining the pivotal alliance between NeXT and Sun Microsystems.

It’s incredible to read how OpenStep was pitched as the "mature" object-oriented solution back then—laying the groundwork for the architecture we still use today in macOS. Real engineering history.

#RetroComputing #NeXTSTEP #SunMicrosystems #TechHistory #Unix #OpenStep #Apple

https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/nextworld-interviews-bud-tribble

This is obviously a longshot, but: I’m trying to boot OpenStep on a SPARCstation 20. I have the optical media. I can “boot cdrom” and get the installer going, but then I get:

Loading OPENSTEP

Reading OPENSTEP configuration
Starting OPENSTEP
Level 15 interrupt

…and I’m back at the “ok” prompt. Anyone know what a “level 15 interrupt” is?

[Edit: it seems to be a broad hardware failure error, and the current suspect is ram; see replies.]

#sparc #nextstep #openstep

The #previous packages at https://wmlive.rumbero.org/repo/pool/main/p/previous/ have been updated to its current 4.0-r1747 version.
The builds are based on libsdl3 version 3.2.10 as offered in Debian/Trixie, which is the target release these packages have been built for.
As usual, packages for i386, amd64, and arm64 have been provided.

There will be no further builds for Debian/Bookworm, as it doesn't include any libsdl3 support packages.

#nextstep #wmlive #gnustep

Wie der NeXT-Kauf Steve Jobs zurück zu Apple brachte
Am 20. Dezember 1996 kaufte Apple die Computerfirma NeXT, die Steve Jobs nach seinem Abschied aus Cupertino gegründet hatte. Der Deal brachte nicht nur neue Software, sondern auch Jobs selbst zurück zu Apple.

Apple übernimmt NeX
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/wie-der-next-kauf-steve-jobs-zurueck-zu-apple-brachte/
#News #Tellerrand #Apple #AppleGeschichte #GilAmelio #MacOSX #macOS #NeXT #NeXTStep #OpenStep #Pixar #SteveJobs

Finally! A guide to the seemingly chaotic capitalization of #nextstep.

NeXTSTEP Naming - LAYERED.work https://layered.work/nextstep-naming/

#retrocomputing #nextcomputers

Finally! A guide to the seemingly chaotic capitalization of #nextstep.

NeXTSTEP Naming - LAYERED.work https://layered.work/nextstep-naming/

#retrocomputing #nextcomputers

Finally! A guide to the seemingly chaotic capitalization of #nextstep.

NeXTSTEP Naming - LAYERED.work https://layered.work/nextstep-naming/

#retrocomputing #nextcomputers

Finally! A guide to the seemingly chaotic capitalization of #nextstep.

NeXTSTEP Naming - LAYERED.work https://layered.work/nextstep-naming/

#retrocomputing #nextcomputers

Finally! A guide to the seemingly chaotic capitalization of #nextstep.

NeXTSTEP Naming - LAYERED.work https://layered.work/nextstep-naming/

#retrocomputing #nextcomputers

So, like #AlbertEinstein and #NikolaTesla were more than likely #Neurodivergent. I'm pretty sure their moms didn't take #Tylenol.

#ND #HumanEvolution #NewMutants? #NextStep in #Evolution?

cc: @autistics

So, like #AlbertEinstein and #NikolaTesla were more than likely #Neurodivergent. I'm pretty sure their moms didn't take #Tylenol.

#ND #HumanEvolution #NewMutants? #NextStep in #Evolution?

cc: @autistics

So, like #AlbertEinstein and #NikolaTesla were more than likely #Neurodivergent. I'm pretty sure their moms didn't take #Tylenol.

#ND #HumanEvolution #NewMutants? #NextStep in #Evolution?

cc: @autistics

So, like #AlbertEinstein and #NikolaTesla were more than likely #Neurodivergent. I'm pretty sure their moms didn't take #Tylenol.

#ND #HumanEvolution #NewMutants? #NextStep in #Evolution?

cc: @autistics

So, like #AlbertEinstein and #NikolaTesla were more than likely #Neurodivergent. I'm pretty sure their moms didn't take #Tylenol.

#ND #HumanEvolution #NewMutants? #NextStep in #Evolution?

cc: @autistics

Fedi let's take a trip down memory lane.

Q: What was your first computing device?
A: Commodore 64 II (C64C)

Q: First Programming Language?
A: BASIC

Q: First Software written for others to use?
A: A Warehouse management software written in Turbo Assembler for GEOS on the C64

Q: First released when?
A: 1990

Q: Last update for that Software
A: 2005 a year later the company who used it went out of business because the owners retired.

Q: Commercial or Free
A: Commercial

Q: First UNIX like OS you used:
A: NeXTSTEP, a local company went out of business and I invested the money I made from my software into a barely used NeXTcube because I've seen one at a trade show and fell in love.

Q: What was your first PC and when?
A: AMD Am386 SX25 in 1990 for the computer science class in school to code in Turbo Pascal.
I payed half and my parents payed the other half.

#commodore64 #geos #NeXT #Nextstep #NeXTCube #pc #AMD #basic #pascal #assembler

This is the full boot process of the #RaspberryPi with Raspberry Pi OS Light. It starts the #Previous emulator in kiosk mode and jumps directly into #NeXTSTEP.

Linux boot time is about 6-7 seconds, the rest (about 1:15m) is NeXTSTEP. 😃

#RetroComputing

https://youtu.be/7zZaRWYqFNw

This is the full boot process of the #RaspberryPi with Raspberry Pi OS Light. It starts the #Previous emulator in kiosk mode and jumps directly into #NeXTSTEP.

Linux boot time is about 6-7 seconds, the rest (about 1:15m) is NeXTSTEP. 😃

Just ignore the guy in front of the monitor. 🤪

#RetroComputing

https://youtu.be/a6UYEIY-DMc

So, I think I'm done with the guide for installing #Previous on a #RaspberryPi (5). If you like, you are welcome to run through it and give me feedback on any errors or inconsistencies. I played through the process myself using this documentation and it worked for me. But that doesn't have to mean anything! Because there are a lot of things I might have taken for granted that I hadn't thought of.

I look forward to your feedback! 🤓

#NeXTSTEP #RetroComputing

https://layered.work/nextstep-on-rpi5-en/

OMG... #ProjectBuilder! I started with this software on Mac OS developing Objective-C. 😃

#NeXT #macOS #NeXTSTEP #RaspberryPi #Previous

And now in full color emulating the #NeXT Dimension board. This is so cool! 😃

The chess app is nearly the same like the current one from #macOS.

#NeXTSTEP #RaspberryPi #Previous

Finally, I got #NeXTSTEP 3.3 running on a #RaspberryPi 5 with #Previous emulator. It was a loong road to go! 🤓

Next step (g): Enable color mode.

Yes!
Installation of #NeXTSTEP 3.3 in #Previous on a #RaspberryPi 5 is running. 😁

New #blog post: Desperately Seeking Preview.app

https://rldane.space/desperately-seeking-previewapp.html

361 words

Kind of a follow-up to yesterday's blost, but also informative for those who work with PDFs in Linux.

Thanks to https://infinitemac.org for enabling me to get the screenshot of Preview.app on NeXTStep 1.0. So awesome!!!!

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

P.S., I really hope someone gets the 1980s movie reference. Even though I've never seen said movie. 😄

P.P.S., @scruss informs me that Firefox's built-in PDF viewer can do (almost) all of the annotation things I've been trying to do with multiple apps. I'm kinda shook!

#100DaysToOffload #50 #FIFTY! #HalfwayThere

#rlDaneWriting #blost #Macintosh #NeXT #NeXTStep #Retrocomputing (a little) #InfiniteMac #PreviewApp #PDF #PDFs #Linux

New #blog post: Desperately Seeking Preview.app

https://rldane.space/desperately-seeking-previewapp.html

361 words

Kind of a follow-up to yesterday's blost, but also informative for those who work with PDFs in Linux.

Thanks to https://infinitemac.org for enabling me to get the screenshot of Preview.app on NeXTStep 1.0. So awesome!!!!

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

P.S., I really hope someone gets the 1980s movie reference. Even though I've never seen said movie. 😄

P.P.S., @scruss informs me that Firefox's built-in PDF viewer can do (almost) all of the annotation things I've been trying to do with multiple apps. I'm kinda shook!

#100DaysToOffload #50 #FIFTY! #HalfwayThere

#rlDaneWriting #blost #Macintosh #NeXT #NeXTStep #Retrocomputing (a little) #InfiniteMac #PreviewApp #PDF #PDFs #Linux

New #blog post: Desperately Seeking Preview.app

https://rldane.space/desperately-seeking-previewapp.html

361 words

Kind of a follow-up to yesterday's blost, but also informative for those who work with PDFs in Linux.

Thanks to https://infinitemac.org for enabling me to get the screenshot of Preview.app on NeXTStep 1.0. So awesome!!!!

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

P.S., I really hope someone gets the 1980s movie reference. Even though I've never seen said movie. 😄

P.P.S., @scruss informs me that Firefox's built-in PDF viewer can do (almost) all of the annotation things I've been trying to do with multiple apps. I'm kinda shook!

#100DaysToOffload #50 #FIFTY! #HalfwayThere

#rlDaneWriting #blost #Macintosh #NeXT #NeXTStep #Retrocomputing (a little) #InfiniteMac #PreviewApp #PDF #PDFs #Linux

New #blog post: Desperately Seeking Preview.app

https://rldane.space/desperately-seeking-previewapp.html

361 words

Kind of a follow-up to yesterday's blost, but also informative for those who work with PDFs in Linux.

Thanks to https://infinitemac.org for enabling me to get the screenshot of Preview.app on NeXTStep 1.0. So awesome!!!!

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

P.S., I really hope someone gets the 1980s movie reference. Even though I've never seen said movie. 😄

P.P.S., @scruss informs me that Firefox's built-in PDF viewer can do (almost) all of the annotation things I've been trying to do with multiple apps. I'm kinda shook!

#100DaysToOffload #50 #FIFTY! #HalfwayThere

#rlDaneWriting #blost #Macintosh #NeXT #NeXTStep #Retrocomputing (a little) #InfiniteMac #PreviewApp #PDF #PDFs #Linux

Here is a demo showing how such software produces a human voice.

#NeXT #NEXTSTEP #NeXTstation #NeXTCube #OS #OpenStep #DisplayPostScript #PostScript #GUI #UNIX#apple #macos #mac

Thinking of NEXTSTEP this morning...I'd guess many aren't aware of the unusual color display arrangement.

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).

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.

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.

(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...)

But that's not nearly the weirdest that NEXTSTEP-capable hardware got, when it came to color video display...

#NeXT #NEXTSTEP #NeXTstation #NeXTCube #OS #OpenStep #DisplayPostScript #PostScript #GUI #UNIX #MC68K #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #computinghistory #SteveJobs #tech

@me_ Hast du Erfahrung mit der Installation von #NeXTSTEP via #Previous auf einem #Raspberry Pi?

Awesome! This guy has installed and is running #NeXTSTEP v0.9(!!!) in the #Previous emulator on a Windows machine. NeXTSTEP when it was still in beta at that time. 😍

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgdG_Cuawq0

@galaxis For the Color ones, it’s a bit easier:

http://asterontech.com/Asterontech/NextStation_Color_Custom%20VGA_Y_Cable.html (Nextstation Color to VGA)

and perhaps also

https://www.drakware.com/shop/p/nextusb (NeXT-to-USB adapter)

#nextstep #nextstation

Episódio 159 – RetroRetrospectiva 2024 – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/12/11/episodio-159-parte-b/

#Podcast #acorn #Apple #AppleIIc #BBCMicro #CPM #Darius #Efemride #Electron #elite #Furnas #IBM #IEEE #jogo #NeXTComputers #NeXTCube #NeXTstation #NEXTSTEP #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #RetroRio #SistemaOperacional #Taito #Workstation

Episódio 159 – RetroRetrospectiva 2024 – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/12/11/episodio-159-parte-b/

#Podcast #acorn #Apple #AppleIIc #BBCMicro #CPM #Darius #Efemride #Electron #elite #Furnas #IBM #IEEE #jogo #NeXTComputers #NeXTCube #NeXTstation #NEXTSTEP #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #RetroRio #SistemaOperacional #Taito #Workstation

Episódio 159 – RetroRetrospectiva 2024 – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/12/11/episodio-159-parte-b/

#Podcast #acorn #Apple #AppleIIc #BBCMicro #CPM #Darius #Efemride #Electron #elite #Furnas #IBM #IEEE #jogo #NeXTComputers #NeXTCube #NeXTstation #NEXTSTEP #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #RetroRio #SistemaOperacional #Taito #Workstation

Episódio 159 – RetroRetrospectiva 2024 – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/12/11/episodio-159-parte-b/

#Podcast #acorn #Apple #AppleIIc #BBCMicro #CPM #Darius #Efemride #Electron #elite #Furnas #IBM #IEEE #jogo #NeXTComputers #NeXTCube #NeXTstation #NEXTSTEP #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #RetroRio #SistemaOperacional #Taito #Workstation

Episódio 159 – RetroRetrospectiva 2024 – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/12/11/episodio-159-parte-b/

#Podcast #acorn #Apple #AppleIIc #BBCMicro #CPM #Darius #Efemride #Electron #elite #Furnas #IBM #IEEE #jogo #NeXTComputers #NeXTCube #NeXTstation #NEXTSTEP #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #RetroRio #SistemaOperacional #Taito #Workstation

The 3D-printed case just arrived from PCBWay. So happy about what this NeXTStep on a Raspberry Pi5 projet is turning into ! #retrocomputing #nextstep #raspberrypi5 #3DPrinting #previous

Episódio 156 – NeXT e NeXTSTEP – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/09/11/episodio-156-parte-b/

#Podcast #AfterSTEP #AldusFreehand #AltsysVirtuoso #Apple #canon #CarnegieMellon #CERN #Cocoa #Copland #Darwin #Doom #DoomII #FVWM #GilAmelio #JohnCarmack #Linux #MacOSX #Mach #NeXT #NeXTSoftwareInc #NeXTCube #NeXTstation #NEXTSTEP #objectstation #ObjectiveC #OPENSTEP #PizzaBox #podcast #Postscript #Previous #Quake #Retrocomputao #Retrpolis #Rhapsody #SistemaOperacional #slab #SteveJobs #Tal

Cool little Galaga arcade cab (fully playable), but these little shelves that go on the top of LCD displays -- so handy!!

#NeXT #NEXTSTEP #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #video #workstation #UNIX #LCD #office #officespace #mydesk #desks #setups #retrogaming #retrogames #shelves #Galaga #arcade #Amiga #gameroom #ByteCellar

I love that Steve Jobs chose to include a video of a colonoscopy being performed as part of the NEXTTIME (NeXT's answer to QuickTime video) install CD's demo videos.

And there was silly Microsoft over there, putting lame old Weezer and Edie Brickell music videos on their Windows 95 CD lol!

#SteveJobs #colons #NeXT #NEXTSTEP #nextstation #UNIX #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintageworkstations #vintagecomputers #computinghistory #videos #video #bluescsi #CDROM #SCSI #Apple #Windows95 #ByteCellar #odd

Тимоти Джон Бернерс-Ли – человек, который почти создал интернет

Сегодня исполняется 69 лет со дня рождения человека, без которого интернет в виде привычной нам «всемирной паутины» мог бы и не родиться. Сегодня мы будем говорить про настоящего «живого классика» информационных технологий, про Тима Бернерса-Ли. Этот человек – настоящий фанат научного прогресса. Отдать то, что мы сейчас называем «интернетом», людям бесплатно — настоящий подвиг, ему не просто так был официально присвоен титул «Сэр». Как истинный рыцарь, он поднимал вопросы ответственности в сети. Вперёд, в историю «сети» и «паука», который её плёл.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/timeweb/articles/820317/

#timeweb_статьи #Тимоти_Джон_БернерсЛи #Интернет #INQUIRE #ЦЕРН #LEP #NeXT #HTML #FTP #Usenet #IRC #NeXTStep #WWW #HyperCard #SLAC #unix

Got an ISO mounted in NEXTSTEP on the NeXTstation with my new BlueSCSI v2 device. Awesome addition to the system.

#NeXT #NEXTSTEP #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #SCSI #storage #vintagetech #tech #NEXTTIME #SteveJobs #video #UNIX #BlueSCSI #RPi #RPIPico

I've been playing with the #WindowMaker version of #Debian recently, just to remember the old, good #NextSTEP, #OpenSTEP era. I used to have a #NeXTStation 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.

Ah, I miss the old #SiliconValley. Back when there was actually room to innovate in ways that were revolutionary, and not just additive.

#linux #stevejobs #gnustep #nostalgia