Yes you are making a valid point, but in the end, memory allocation problems amount up to a big mistake is some of the already existent graphical toolkits. This is a big problem that needs to be solved. Whether or not Inti can solve this, I'm not sure yet...
I also attended a college - Allegheny College - that used NeXT for many years. In fact I worked at Technical and Network Services at college, and had to service these boxes for 2 years. Allegheny kept their next machines until 1998, and by that time they were getting pretty damn slow. But in the end, these machines were excellend on a college campus that was filled with not-too-bright computer users. Their UI had to have ranked high on the usability scale, and they had a easy to set up account system.
Allegheny made a transition to a NT 4.0 Network During the Summer of 99, after a NT/OpenStep Dual boot network in the Summer of 98. Administration wanted an OS like they had at home, but the NT network has been nothing but a hassle to TNS. I must admit that the turbo color NeXT pizza boxes were a far better machine that the NT machines. NT is horrificly slower than the NeXT boxes were.
While searching for a job after my graduation in May, I got an offer from a company in Chicago which wanted me to do OpenStep development, so there is still some action goin on in the NeXTStep/OpenStep scene.
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Yes you are making a valid point, but in the end, memory allocation problems amount up to a big mistake is some of the already existent graphical toolkits. This is a big problem that needs to be solved. Whether or not Inti can solve this, I'm not sure yet...
-=MeMpH1St0=-I also attended a college - Allegheny College - that used NeXT for many years. In fact I worked at Technical and Network Services at college, and had to service these boxes for 2 years. Allegheny kept their next machines until 1998, and by that time they were getting pretty damn slow. But in the end, these machines were excellend on a college campus that was filled with not-too-bright computer users. Their UI had to have ranked high on the usability scale, and they had a easy to set up account system.
Allegheny made a transition to a NT 4.0 Network During the Summer of 99, after a NT/OpenStep Dual boot network in the Summer of 98. Administration wanted an OS like they had at home, but the NT network has been nothing but a hassle to TNS. I must admit that the turbo color NeXT pizza boxes were a far better machine that the NT machines. NT is horrificly slower than the NeXT boxes were.
While searching for a job after my graduation in May, I got an offer from a company in Chicago which wanted me to do OpenStep development, so there is still some action goin on in the NeXTStep/OpenStep scene.