Comments on: Tech : NeXT Cube Demo

By: GIMEchip

GIMEchip — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:20:08 +0000

@lichuan80 and the innovation 20 years ago was based on an operating system that was already 20 years old 20 years ago UNIX is what, about 41 years old now? Admittedly, todays UNIX is different than the first iteration from 1969, but still – it’s Unix. I love BSD in all of it’s incarnations (PCBSD is what I’m fiddling with at the moment). I just love computers man, all operating systems, all processors – I have fun with it, especially the vintage stuff.

By: Dragonsrule89

Dragonsrule89 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:20:08 +0000

wow… that was one nice machine, can’t wait for any follow up videos you make about it… vintage computing rocks!

By: Molo9000

Molo9000 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:20:08 +0000

The black box looks awesome.
Why were computers of that era all beige? All the way to the mid/late 90s it was all beige. Why?

By: jwd0808

jwd0808 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:20:08 +0000

Yeah I believe these workstations sold for between $9,000 to $13,000.

By: weinerschnitzelboy

weinerschnitzelboy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:20:08 +0000

Wow! It’s slower than my iPod touch!!!

By: CabbageNappa

CabbageNappa — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:20:08 +0000

@lichuan80 My aim isn’t to defend Apple in saying this, but saying that the technology is inferior because it’s based on technology from 20 years ago is like calling the human race inferior. I agree, there needs to be more work, especially more researc for exokernels, but google code has been helping a lt of ese projects along. sorry for teh typos but my vbrowser started tweaking out

By: bobdole57

bobdole57 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:20:08 +0000

Fantastic!

By: yourihemeleers

yourihemeleers — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:20:08 +0000

Unix !

By: lichuan80

lichuan80 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:20:08 +0000

It is a bit upsetting to see how innovation of 5 people around 20 years ago still steering the acclaimed most advanced OS nowadays, and upon realizing this, think about how IT industry could become if the companies like Microsoft and IBM or Sun could convince their investor to put slight more focus on invocation factors and work more closed with the brightest minds from academic.