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0 pointsrbanffy1mo ago0 comments

When NeXT acquired Apple (for one Steve Jobs, getting $400 million as change) OPENSTEP was not dated - it still looked impressive next to MacOS 9 and Windows. And CDE, of course, but that’s a very low bar.

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aa-jv1mo ago

It didn't look as great as Irix did back then, though ..

rbanffyOP1mo ago

No, but it had text anti-aliasing. That looked pretty neat, the one thing I wish SGI had done.

That and powering their GUI to Linux.

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aa-jv1mo ago

It didn't look as great as Irix did back then, though ..

rbanffyOP1mo ago

No, but it had text anti-aliasing. That looked pretty neat, the one thing I wish SGI had done.

That and powering their GUI to Linux.

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