JdeBPI'm lucky enough to still have several #UnixWorld back issues. Although I couldn't find March 1985 in a quick search through the stack. I wasn't really able to afford such extravagances in 1985.
Enjoy the Internet Archive and Unix Toyah Wilcox. (-:
The article to which that picture and the related one on the front cover (the same woman seemingly impressing Toyah Wilcox, looking over her shoulder, by using a monitor in portrait orientation as a tanning bed to turn her chest bright orange) belongs has some wild but not *entirely* off predictions.
IBM will win the standards war, with Token Ring and two things that fell by the wayside so thoroughly that I've never encountered them even on OS/2 or PC-DOS.
UIs will employ dynamic function keys, have context-sensitive help, be voice-driven, and will 'eliminate the need for a mouse to always be present to use the system'. (Hey, Cortana! Did that come true?)
MS-DOS will be rewritten in C and become capable of running #Unix programs alongside MS-DOS ones.
And everyone will need a VT-100 (sic!) terminal emulator on their PCs.
#UnixWorld #DECVTs #TerminalEmulators #ComputingHistory #retrocomputing #xterm
Although that *is* #UnixWorld magazine from 1985. It was thoroughly 16-bit, starting with Xenix/286 on its front cover and continuing with an MC68000-based HP supermicro. One of the articles was even about running stuff on a 32-bit AT&T 3B2.
@cstross
#Unix #InstructionSetArchitecture #ComputingHistory #retrocomputing
Martin BishopDespite its technical innovations, NeXT's hardware failed to gain significant market traction. In February 1993, #NeXT ceased hardware production to focus solely on software, particularly the #NeXTSTEP operating system. The April 1993 issue of #UnixWorld featured a cover story titled “Does Steve Jobs have a future in software?”, accompanied by a headline reading “Steve’s gone”.
