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0 pointsjonhendry14y ago0 comments

"It was famous for its sound system in particular."

I don't recall it being a big deal after the black hardware and their DSPs were killed.

"NeXT had its own 3D facilities as well (OpenGL under NeXTSTEP, and Display Renderman), which were entirely tossed out in favor of the "legacy" OS 9 version."

I don't recall NeXT ever having OpenGL. And Display Renderman pretty much lost to OpenGL in the 90s, so that wasn't about to be resurrected.

" NeXTSTEP, or more properly OpenStep, had a Java port from Sun"

Really? I don't remember that.

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SeanLuke14y ago· 1 in thread

As I wrote one of the more popular sound editors as an undergraduate (Resound), them's fightin' words. SoundKit was still quite good, even if MusicKit sorta died with the DSP.

I think I'm mistaken about OpenGL, my memory is fuzzy. As to Java: what I was thinking of was OPENSTEP/NT and NEO both supporting Java (WebObjects had Java as early as '97), but I believe it was never released on NeXTSTEP. I guess that doesn't count.

jonhendryOP14y ago

I do miss Renderman on the desktop. Maybe not very practical, just really cool.

When I was contracting at Swiss Bank in Chicago in 1994, I noticed an HP on the network running NeXTSTEP. I telnet'ed to it from the NeXTStation on my desk, and ran some renders to see how much faster it was. Got a stern email saying "Stop doing that.".

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