Comment by wtallis
1 year ago
If you're going to bring Sun and NeWS into the conversation, you ought to also mention how after NeWS failed, Sun tried adopting OpenStep for Solaris.
1 year ago
If you're going to bring Sun and NeWS into the conversation, you ought to also mention how after NeWS failed, Sun tried adopting OpenStep for Solaris.
Sadly Sun kind of went of the deep end did itself no favors on the desktop. There is a reason they turned primarily into a server vendor. You could also run Xerox Cedar on Sun machines at the time.
It was the research into systems like Xerox Cedar, among others, that turned me into a believer of systems programming with automatic resource management languages.
Most of these systems failed not due to technical limitations, rather by poor management decisions that ended up killing their adoption.
Likewise in the UNIX world, my favourite ones are the ones that went out of their way to not be yet another UNIX V6 clone with X, like IRIX, NeWS and NeXTSTEP.