Hacker News Reader

NeXT wasn't Linux, but the point being made was that it would have been easy to dismiss NeXT as a "fringe" platform at the time. It is an argument for developing with platforms [and porting to them] when they may not be a priority for your end users.

It wasn't Linux but was based on mach Unix iirc. And they weren't cheap.. but they were cheaper than a similar horsepowered SGI workstation at the time, iiarc. But probably 10x the cost of a Windows machine.

Actually it was Doom that was developed on NeXT. A big advantage of doing development on NeXT vs DOS was that dereferencing an errant pointer couldn't take down the whole machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Doom#Programmin...

>NeXT wasn't Linux. My understanding is that it was a completely proprietary POSIX based operating system.

NeXT was BSD with a Mach kernel.

It was, in most significant ways, proto-MacOS.