Re: OpenStep: Advice Needed

[Richard van Paasen]

Pascal,

Thanks for your comments. If found 2 Mach projects:

- mach4 (http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oldproj.html)
  This project is no longer alive according to the homepage.

- xMach (http://www.xmach.org/)
  This one is alive and based on mach4 (as the faq says)

However, the xMach homepage looks to me as if xMach is not
stable yet, so I guess that the mach4 project is the one I
should use for the OpenStep system ? I also read about OSF
Mach...

Can you give me a url of the Mach I need for OpenStep on
Intel?


Thanks,

- Richard.



Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

> Richard van Paasen <rvpaasen@dds.nl> wrote:
> > [...]
> > Consequently, I need a machine that runs OpenStep 4.2. But,
> > I'm not sure about what I need to run it. If I'm right,
> > OpenStep is available for:
> >
> >   A) Intel platform, Windows NT 4
> >   B) Intel platform, Sun Solaris (6,7,8?)
> >   C) Sun Sparc, Solaris (6,7,8?)
> >   D) The Mach thing too, but I don't know that stuff
>
> > I've two questions:
> >
> > 1)
> > Which is the best option for porting to OpenStep? Keeping in mind
> > that I need to port to Intel/Linux/GNUstep too, I'd guess that the
> > second option (Intel+Solaris) would be the way to go. This way, the
> > three platforms will all be unix-like. However, I'm new at this so
> > please correct me if I'm wrong!
>
> Using an original  NeXTstation or a NeXTcube would  feel somewhat slow
> today. Therefore, the best option would be:
>
>     E) Intel platform, "native" OPENSTEP 4.2, that is, OPENSTEP/Mach.
>
> I'm don't  think that OpenStep/Solaris or  OpenStep/WindowsNT have the
> tools to  convert NeXTSTEP applications  to OpenStep. I  don't remeber
> that OpenStep/Solaris was available on Solaris/Intel either (B).
>
> When building  an Intel (or  AMD) platform for OPENSTEP,  special care
> should be taken to choose compatible devices.
>
> Once upon  a time, there was  this NeXTanswers giving  details, but it
> seems that www.next.com don't answer anymore.
>
> http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2001.htmld/2001.html
>
> Another possibility  too, would be to  use WMware 3.0,  I've head that
> it's possible to make OPENSTEP 4.2 run on it (unsupported).
>
> > 2)
> > Where can I buy OpenStep 4.2?
>
> http://www.blackholeinc.com/specials/openstep42_order.shtml
>
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