Martin Bishop
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Martin Bishop
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#fedi22 #FreeBSD #BSD #Linux #Geek & #Nerd #Science #openSUSE #PowerShell #WSL #DotNet #Go #Infrastructure #Naturalist #StarTrek #RetroGaming #RetroInformatics #Goonie #Gnome #KDE #WindowMaker #AfterStep #FVWM #Enlightenment Learning to code again.
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Feb 01, 2026
A fascinating look back at 1994: Bud Tribble explaining the pivotal alliance between NeXT and Sun Microsystems.
It’s incredible to read how OpenStep was pitched as the "mature" object-oriented solution back then—laying the groundwork for the architecture we still use today in macOS. Real engineering history.
#RetroComputing #NeXTSTEP #SunMicrosystems #TechHistory #Unix #OpenStep #Apple
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/nextworld-interviews-bud-tribble
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