Good news for those interested in continuing use of the OpenStep operating system: Atomic Object has posted a new version of the community VMware driver for OpenStep on github. You can read more about it in the blog post or the forum announcement over at nextcomputers.org. The update includes support for high-resolution video modes.
Pretty cool that people are still working on this. Personally I’ve got NeXTSTEP 3.3 running on a PA-RISC machine, a HP 712/80. It’s interesting and kind of sad to consider that the bulk of this stuff predates Windows NT, and there could have been a commericially polished UNIX machine on everybody’s desk by the mid-nineties, had it worked out.
Hopefully some day somebody will do an emulator for the m68k machines; being the original architecture, they have the most software.
If this works op OpenStep and NextStep, I wonder, will it also work on Rhapsody? Since Rhapsody is based on OpenStep/NextStep?
I wonder if anyone has tried to replace components one by one on openstep like has been done with BeOS (Haiku).
OpenStep was certainly a great system that I had the opportunity to use for such a brief time.
Haiku was started the moment BeOS fell, and look at it today, it’s still alpha.
OpenStep is long gone, to start working on that now, i’m affraid, is a little too late.
Well there are plenty of UNIX kernels to choose from and of course GNUStep, so that’s a good chunk of it right there.
OS X uses the same technology underneath as NextStep, albeit a more developed form of it obviously. So what is so special about NextStep today? The GUI perhaps or is it the hardware?