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Notorious b.s.d. posted:next had some genuinely cool things going on (an actually usable gui api, for one), but they entered a dying market with a sub-standard product. except where, you know, it did (says the guy who works at NeXT, of course)
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eschaton posted:except where, you know, it did You mean Apple.
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Now that Apple cares more about selling garbage toy products than actual computers they should spin off the OSX division as a separate NeXT company again and let it crush Windows and Linux for serious desktop computing
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Your mom and I have been doing some serious dilztop computing.
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r u ready to WALK posted:Now that Apple cares more about selling garbage toy products than actual computers they should spin off the OSX division as a separate NeXT company again and let it crush Windows and Linux for serious desktop computing
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Jan 24, 2017 18:35
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r u ready to WALK posted:serious desktop computing it doesn't exist lol
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eschaton posted:except where, you know, it did being bought by a bigger failing company and striking gold on mobile phones doesn't really count. i mean, the iphone is awesome and all, but NeXT was a grotesque failure in its intended markets -- workstations and graphical desktops, etc. tl;dr: a lot more luck than excellence put NeXT execs in their current positions
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r u ready to WALK posted:serious desktop computing I can only come up with two examples and windows or os x is just as good in either: * Video editing * CAD
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Boiled Water posted:I can only come up with two examples and windows or os x is just as good in either: Yes windows is very good at Control-Alt-Del. 
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spankmeister posted:Yes windows is very good at Control-Alt-Del.
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Boiled Water posted:I can only come up with two examples and windows or os x is just as good in either: avid nle has historically been focused on windows apparently they released an osx version but lol @ doing anything with avid with only 16 gb of ram Boiled Water posted:* CAD -- the market for unix workstations is long dead. aside from software development, "professional" computing has moved to windows
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Windows is good
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:avid nle has historically been focused on windows Media Composer has gone through intervals where it was mac-only as well as windows-only
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:avid nle has historically been focused on windows hail satan
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Jan 26, 2017 18:24
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it was copland op
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r u ready to WALK posted:Now that Apple cares more about selling garbage toy products than actual computers they should spin off the OSX division as a separate NeXT company again and let it crush Windows and Linux for serious desktop computing the minute they do this they have to support windows-level ranges of hardware and whoops, there goes any remaining "it just works" advantage
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Jan 26, 2017 20:10
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the market for unix workstations is long dead. aside from software development, "professional" computing has moved to windows unix still has a niche when it comes to really high-end software like flame, highly specialized cad packages and the homebrew stuff used at studios like pixar
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blugu64 posted:it was copland op i loved reboot!!
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:apparently they released an osx version but lol @ doing anything with avid with only 16 gb of ram you would be using the trash can mac in this circumstance
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the osx version of avid feels like an afterthought anyways
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avid is an afterthought anyways
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