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What I know is that NeXT made NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP for PC compatibles by design. And I know that Apple made versions of Rhapsody, Darwin and Mac OS X for PC compatibles, again, by design. But I also know that throwing a bunch of parts together that happen to be the same as those in one type...

I think it should be noted that all PCs share one common design element... they are all designed to be Windows compatible. Microsoft puts out a specification of what qualifies as a Windows compatible system, and these companies build their systems with that in mind. On that note... Apple...

Generally speaking, when people ask about Rhapsody I tend to point them at getting a copy of Mac OS X Server 1.x. It is a release version of Rhapsody, so it functions nicer than the developer releases, and it can run on a wide range of systems (I've had it installed on a Power Macintosh 7500...

We shouldn't discount the very first browser/editor though... or the reason it was WYSIWYG. HTML started out life as a cross platform page layout language... that didn't really work and was dropped by most everyone. It was still very limited when Berners-Lee adopted it as the layout language...

The first web browser, which was also the first web HTML editor app (and it was WYSIWYG by the way), and the first web server were designed and built on a NeXT Cube running NEXTSTEP 2.0. In the beginning the web (defined as hyper text transport protocol serving hyper text markup language...

Well, you have me stumped. :( If you could find a 2 or 4 GB drive to try out internally to isolate the problem, that would be a good start. If the problem continues, then it is not the original drive. Then if you had a 2 or 4 GB external SCSI drive to try we could isolate if it is the...

The option key while starting up Outlook Express will optimize the database... if this is all new from a few days ago, then it most likely wouldn't do much of anything. One thing to keep in mind is that the preferences for Outlook are most likely still from the pre-Mac OS X installation (when...

There could be some advantage to putting Mac OS 9 on second, after Mac OS X... Mac OS 9 really doesn't need to be installed, it can be placed on a drive. One suggestion is to move the Mac OS 9 system folder to the second partition, then do a erase and install of 10.2 on the first partition...

Unless you use OS 9 Helper.

Not sure about that one... I usually set up my clients transition so to avoid these types of things. Part of the problem may be the fact that while Outlook keeps a lot of data in that Microsoft User Data folder, it is still (at it's heart) a Mac OS 9 app. And as such also keeps some data in the...

The ability to print file lists from the Finder was never added to Mac OS X's Finder (which is not based on the Mac OS 8/9 Finder, it was made from scratch for Mac OS X). But you can add the ability via a third party app like this one.

Actually I cheated a little... I compiled the list a long time ago because I get ask the first poster's question quite a lot. Usually it is one of my clients wanting a deal on ebay and asking if the software will run on their system. With my cash-strapped clients, that list comes in handy. ;)

Well, not knowing exactly what qualifies as Professional Software, I'll list some of the titles that had previous Mac OS 8/9 versions. These are the first Mac OS X compatible releases of these apps... most have had a number of versions since these releases.Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Adobe Illustrator...

Well, I've seen this many times... Outlook Express running in Mac OS 8/9 keeps all it's files in the Documents folder on the upper most level of the hard drive. But Outlook Express running in Classic in Mac OS X keeps all it's files in the Documents folder in your account folder (the folder...

If I recall correctly, your system came with a system restore set (basically that media copies an image of the factory installed software back onto the system), Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X installation media. You should be able to reinstall Mac OS X from the Mac OS X installation CD. As long as you...

If you are trying to start up Mac OS X v10.0.4 (which was released in the summer of 2001 as I recall) after using 9.2.x on this system all this time, I can tell you that your going to have a ton a problems. First of all, odds are that you have removed some of the required files for Mac OS X...

Well, let us not forget that we are talking about (in the case of my screenshot) an operating system from 1996... it's 10 years old now. More importantly, NeXT was locked out of the desktop market. Back when Jobs lost the position of CEO at Apple, he didn't actually leave right away. He...

Yeah, the guy is awesome! :D

It is OPENSTEP 4.2 running on my IBM ThinkPad 760ED. I have two hard drives, a 2 GB drive for OPENSTEP and a 6 GB drive for Rhapsody, which I can switch out in a matter of seconds. Usually it is running Rhapsody (which is set up for most of the things I need for my consulting work) but when I'm...

Well, nixgeek covered the first part... though I would have linked to my NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP Resource Page (but I'm a little bias ;p ). As for where everything is... the old NeXT dock wasn't that great at handling a lot of apps... so I use a dock replacement that gives me different levels...