Comments on: Installing NextStep/OpenStep on VPC

By: joo

joo — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:10:55 +0000

I’m looking for a reseller to get OPENSTEP on Intel developer version.
Tried to get contact to BlackHole Inc. but get no answer.
Does anyone knows where to get the software?

By: leeg

leeg — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:05:48 +0000

BTW, the floppy images are available over HTTP from Apple: http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/MultiCountry/Enterprise/openstep/floppyimages/

By: leeg

leeg — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 12:07:32 +0000

Clicking on my name gets to a blog where I wrote much about my experiences getting OPENSTEP/Parallels working. Networking’s fine but slow, graphics is good, mouse is a bit jumpy. I was talking at WWDC with people who say that Microsoft VPC no longer supports OPENSTEP/Mach. You definitely can’t boot native on a new Intel Mac, as there’s no SATA driver (and no way to use a boot floppy).

By: bbum

bbum — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 04:42:54 +0000

Bummer. No idea where they are these days, then.

By: Gavin Eadie

Gavin Eadie — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 04:24:24 +0000

Bill … The ftp repo at http://ftp.apple.com doesn’t contain those old disk image files any more.

By: John C. Randolph

John C. Randolph — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:40:55 +0000

I have seen OpenStep 4.2 running under Parallels. Chris Hanson brought it to a Cocoa Heads meeting a couple months ago.

-jcr

By: Ovidiu

Ovidiu — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 22:29:10 +0000

Wow, this is really cool! Can you install OpenStep 4.2 on a new Intel-based Mac? This would be pretty awesome, but I doubt the drivers would work.

By: Clark Cox

Clark Cox — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:29:30 +0000

Ahh memories…

I’m currently in the process of updating the very codebase of which you speak to run as Universal binaries.