I remember trying to get NeXTSTEP 3.3 running on x86 hardware, it was so fussy with the hardware it supported that I had to take apart 3 computers from the office as well as a personal (not mine) Everex cube PC. (That's just for what was used, I'd taken apart way more to try and fail with so many cuts on my hands.) Then there were so many precise moments where you had to hit keys, eject floppy, or other hardware shenanigans that it felt like playing Dragon's Lair.
Was finally able to get it to boot to 2-bit grayscale on a DECpc with a LocalBus video card and some kind of SCSI drives. [After a few days, I had to return the parts to the users' PCs]
The NeXTSTEP desktop was nice. Interface Builder though blew my mind.
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I remember trying to get NeXTSTEP 3.3 running on x86 hardware, it was so fussy with the hardware it supported that I had to take apart 3 computers from the office as well as a personal (not mine) Everex cube PC. (That's just for what was used, I'd taken apart way more to try and fail with so many cuts on my hands.) Then there were so many precise moments where you had to hit keys, eject floppy, or other hardware shenanigans that it felt like playing Dragon's Lair.
Was finally able to get it to boot to 2-bit grayscale on a DECpc with a LocalBus video card and some kind of SCSI drives. [After a few days, I had to return the parts to the users' PCs]
The NeXTSTEP desktop was nice. Interface Builder though blew my mind.