Don't know if anyone is interested, but I'm selling some of my NS and OS discs on eBay.
OPENSTEP 4.2
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=110173971272NeXTSTEP 3.1 Prerelease for Intel processors
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=110173970241I'm also going to be listing assorted hardware (x86) that is supposed to be compatible. I purchased it all specifically to build an x86 OPENSTEP 4.2 system. When one seller sent me the wrong MB (no ISA slot), and other things happened, the project was shelved and I never got the chance to return to the project.
what? more than $20 for a beta?
Am I missing something?
first time i've decided to actually put it up for sale. i've not seen it listed for sale before. i got it from next when i was doing custom built systems built specifically for nextstep.
if it doesn't sell for my reserve, i'll decide to either keep it (call me a sentimental softy geek), relist it with lower/no reserve, or offer it to highest bidder. i don't know which yet.
If it can be confirmed that the Openstep 4.2 works with black hardware (mach) I'd be interested
It just says "for mach" on the disc. If you have a way to check, I'll try to do what I can to confirm. It seems that these were "fat" or quad binaries, but I have no way to test. I don't have any black hardware.
mount the disc under ns/os and run "file" on any exe ... it'll tell you how its packed..
I suspect it'll probably be i486 only, or m68k/i486... they usually packaged it as CISC/RISC sets...
but I could be wrong.