• aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The OS, NeXTStep, would be used as the foundation for OS X when Steve returned to Apple and threw out the entire MacOS codebase due to bugs, legacy cruft, and laughable security.

    It’s why macOS has the Dock of icons across the edge of the screen to this day.

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      17 hours ago

      and threw out the entire MacOS codebase due to bugs, legacy cruft, and laughable security.

      Maybe he shouldn’t have.

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      3 days ago

      And the finder window layout with the successive columns of listings. I remember that on NeXT workstations in 1993. That’s around the first time I visited a world wide website.