e81 – The NeXT Transition

Follow Up

• Dashboard going away in macOS 10.15
  • Dashboard widget gallery
• documentaries
  • General Magic screenings
  • Before Macintosh kickstarter

Taligent, Copland, and Mac OS 8

• Aqua and Bondi book
• Blue and Pink
  • Blue Meanies
• Taligent
• Copland
  • delays
  • Aaron Copland
  • Aaron extension

NeXT

• NeXTSTEP
  • also considered: BeOS
• Steve Jobs demos NeXTSTEP 3
• NeXTSTEP v. Mac OS X screenshot megathread
• Dock
  • DragThing
  • Fitt's Law
• Services
  • Quick Actions in macOS Mojave
• Grab
• Chess
• Interface Builder

Becoming Mac OS X

• Apple code names (Gershwin, Sonata, etc.)
• Rhapsody [WayBack!]
  • User Experience Preliminary Design Document
• OPENSTEP
• Developer Preview 2
• Developer Preview 3
  • A Very Bad Mail Preferences Window