Poll: Did you like using NeXTstep?

[Koeppster]

How many people out there used (or still use) a NeXT slab or cube at some point? Did you like it or not?

 

[gershel]

I used couple of times, on a 21" black and white monitor, it was big back in those days. What I liked about the interface and the whole system is simplicity and easy to use.

Now this "modern" os that came out of MS simply looks ridiculous compare to Next. I spend about 4 hours turning every jumping/happy color/extra sh*t that I don't need OFF, to make the system usefull as win95.

 

[Koeppster]

NeXTstep ruled. That's why I use Windowmaker.

Even though it doesn't boot anymore, I have a NeXT cube and monitor/keyboard (even the power cables w/ the NeXT logo) at my folks' house in Illinois. I should retrieve them at Christmas and get that thing working so I can sell it.

 

[Ace69]

What is "the cat's pajamas"? I have never heard of that before.. lol

 

[n0cmonkey]

Ive wanted to use it but never really had the chance. Ive got Mac OS X though, so Im good for now

 

[Koeppster]

From "Listening to America: An Illustrated History of Words and Phrases from Our Lively and Splendid Past" by Stuart Berg Flexner:

"For 'great' (in the 20s) we have: the cat's pajamas, remarkable, first used around 1920, when pajamas were still somewhat shockingly new...similar expressions...the duck's quack, 1920; the bee's knees, the clam's garters, the elephant's wrist, the eel's ankles, the gnat's elbow, all 1923 the elephant's arches and the sardine's whiskers, both 1924; the bullfrog's beard, the cuckoo's chin, the leopard's stripes, the pig's wings, the snake's hips, and the tiger's spots, all 1925."


Once again, all I can say is....Google is your friend.

 

[Ace69]

LOL, thanks koepsterr for going to the trouble of looking that up for me. You really shouldn't have..