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From: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Setting up an X Development Environment for Mac OS
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 22:07:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45987281-a06d-810e-9689-5a8ae2c63a63@gmail.com> (raw)
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On 1/26/23 6:48 PM, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> id Software is a *perfect*​ example of the fact that you can open 
> source your stuff once it has done market rounds and still be wildly 
> successful and a household name.  It helps that John Carmack himself 
> was very principled about that sort of thing, not only contributing 
> engines as open source projects but designing them specifically to be 
> easy to modify and extend. The WAD is as responsible for the success 
> of doom as source availability methinks.
I met John Romero and American McGee back in the early 1990's as they 
were just finished with Doom II. John Carmack had some other obligation 
(sad, cuz he was the main developer), but Romero was pretty smart too - 
had plenty of insight into the space rendering mechanics and such and 
both were more than happy to share what they new, what they were working 
on, and gab about space and time :). I also remember that they were 
bemoaning having to give up their NeXT boxes for racks and racks of some 
other machine to do equivalent work (at the time, I was completely 
clueless as to what they were talking about). With decades behind, I 
have a clue about one workstation being oh so powerful and about server 
farms doing rendering, but I really don't know nothing about NeXT, it's 
boxes, or what I'm really wondering about - its relationship with unix 
(although I'm pretty sure there is one). I know that Sun was working 
with them on OpenStep and OpenStep and the NeXT cube were predecessors 
to my favorite contemporary system (my Mac), but that's about it. So, 
how does NeXT fit into the unix world? And was it all that? I remember 
after talking to them that I really, really wanted one...

Will

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-27  4:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-25 20:38 Noel Chiappa
2023-01-25 21:25 ` Clem Cole
2023-01-26  6:30   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-26 10:56     ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-01-26 12:01       ` arnold
2023-01-26 13:25         ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-26 15:28       ` [TUHS] " josh
2023-01-26 16:07         ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-26 16:48           ` emanuel stiebler
2023-01-26 21:19             ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-26 22:51               ` Andy Kosela
2023-01-27  0:48                 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-27  4:07                   ` Will Senn [this message]
2023-01-27 14:08                     ` Chet Ramey
2023-01-27 14:49                       ` Ron Natalie
2023-01-27 15:53                     ` Dan Cross
2023-01-27 16:12                       ` [TUHS] NEXTSTEP 486 [was " Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2023-01-27 14:17             ` [TUHS] " Ralph Corderoy
2023-01-27 13:56         ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-01-27 14:54           ` Ron Natalie
2023-01-27 16:10             ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-28 22:15               ` Dave Horsfall
2023-01-29  0:31                 ` Kevin Bowling
2023-01-29 11:07                   ` emanuel stiebler
2023-01-27 21:42             ` Tom Perrine
2023-01-28  2:18               ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-28  2:49                 ` Tom Perrine
2023-01-26  6:32 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-26  9:45 ` emanuel stiebler via TUHS
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-01-25  1:46 [TUHS] " Will Senn
2023-01-25  7:45 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-01-25  8:00   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-25 16:41   ` Rich Salz
2023-01-25 19:53     ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-01-25 20:04       ` Dan Cross
2023-01-25 20:23         ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-25 20:27           ` Chet Ramey
2023-01-27  4:49         ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-01-27 18:05           ` Henry Mensch
2023-01-27 18:24             ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2023-01-26 13:17       ` Marc Donner

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