Richard E Crandall the chief scientist (who died too early too). Though software wise there were also other genious guys involved at NeXT and later at Apple, like Jean-Marie Hullot (.he sadly died three years ago) who was reponsible for the dev tools (ProjectBuilder, InterfaceBuilder, Obj-C, APIs etc.). So the main force of the Mach kernel (.like Linus Torvalds is for the Linux kernel). Yes at NeXT he was responsible for the Mach kernel and thus the heart of the BSD Unix based NeXTstep/OpenStep system. The groundbreaking on NeXT was more of the operating system (NeXTstep/OpenStep) and its software and not necessarily the hardware, which, as I said before, was too expensive anyway! - The whole evolution of that can be seen nowadays in MacOS!Īvie Tevanian, the main developer of Mach OS. Later when NeXT realized that and went software only, it was pretty much to late! Since for that money you could also have bought a new VW Golf then. The general overall problem those times was, that the black hardware was way too expensive, even for students and acedemic research workers. He got a one day briefing in the use and some help to integrate the machine into their specific network there. When I worked for Next, I once brought a NeXtcube to a military university, which went to a research assistant there. We had no next computers ( not even one) in those times at the main university computer science department, instead it was there more of a Sun Workstation Solaris/Sunos domain. Thinking to get ahead of us, the Computing Center declared NeXT was the future and brought in a sales group to sell the idea to the rest of us. Note that your pop-up blocker or ad blocker may prevent sorting, and that these pages are subject to change without notice.Decades ago, our university Computing Center was thrashing wildly in search of a way to maintain control as we abandoned their IBM mainframe in favor of decentralized desktop computing. Here are some common codes for WWP encoding:Īt the moment Syd also has both a sortable table of the top 20 characters and a sortable table of all characters in the textbase. And, remember that the WWP doesn’t include many of the ligatures that you might encounter in your text: see the entry on typography and special characters The Unicode Consortium site also has links to code charts. Doing a Google search with “unicode” prefacing the name of character you need will almost always work and Google is usually forgiving if you don’t know the exact name of the character you’re looking for. If you don’t know the code for a character you need (for example, you might want to have an é or something in the Greek alphabet), you can use the UnicodeChecker software (on the encoding computers already and you can download it on your own), or look up what you need online. When you've found the character, hit "Insert" and it will be inserted into your text wherever your cursor is. Go to "Edit" and then "Insert from Character Map." You can search for the character you want by description or by its Unicode code point.
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