[SunRescue] [OT]: NeXTStep on SPARC/PA RISC

Joshua D. Boyd rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Apr 17 15:52:45 CDT 2001


Speaking of mathematica on NeXT, I heard that it used to come standard.
Can anyone confirm this, and which versions did it come standard with?  I
suspect that setting up nextstep on a 486 would be cheaper than buying a
copy of Mathematica, and for my needs, a 486 for math is fine.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Reagen Ward wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 03:37:26PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > That looks like what you want.  As an interesting bit of trivia, my
> > understanding is that Quake was originally written on NS running on
> > PA-Risc, and then only when it was near done, it was ported to DOS.  The
> > original editors for the game were all for NS, that I remeber.  I'd love
> > to get NextStep on risc machine. 
> 
> In addition, the WWW was invented under NeXTStep, as was Lotus Improv
> and Mathematica.
> 
> Those of you getting NS or OS, check the peak archives for the
> lighthouse software suite; nice stuff, and the license is free since Sun
> shut them down.
> 
> Reagen
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