On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:40, David Chisnall
<theraven@sucs.org> wrote:
It would be nice if we could link to (or host) some of the videos of Steve Jobs demoing the NeXT stuff (NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, PDO, WebObjects). All of these demos show just how far ahead NeXT was. I just watched the one about the design of the DMA architecture on the NeXT workstation - it looks crazy today because he's talking about stuff that everyone does as if it's new and exciting. Then you realise that the reason that he's having to explain in so much detail is that this really is a new concept for anything smaller than a mainframe - PCs and workstations are all doing it now, but they weren't back then.
Many of the presentations have the same quality. You watch them and think 'well, of course - why would you do it any other way?' Then you remember that the rest of the industry at the time was doing it another way.
Here's one wonderful example.
NeXTSTEP Release 3