Josh JusticeGreat news: the #NeXTstation that got lost in the mail finally arrived a month later, and it looks and works great!
And a really interesting bonus: seller said it had "Mac OS installed" and I was like 🫤 but turns out it has a NeXT program called Executor that runs Macintosh software. Will need to read up on it more!
Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)@CodingItWrong @kalleboo Pretty sure Executor also made it to Windows, it's been around a while. They basically clean-room reimplemented their own version of the System 6 API, that's why their "Finder" looks so weird.
Karl Baron@uliwitness @CodingItWrong Yeah I remember running the Windows version on a friends PC, on the contrary I didn’t know about a NeXT version!
Wesley Moore@kalleboo @uliwitness @CodingItWrong Clifford Matthews published the source of Executor on GitHub a while back too https://github.com/ctm/executor
@wezm @kalleboo @uliwitness incidentally, anyone happen to know how it's pronounced? "ex-EC-u-tor" (like executive) or "EX-e-cu-tor" (like execute)
@CodingItWrong @wezm @kalleboo I always pronounced it “exeCUtor" in my head (like the Austrian pay collection agent), but I’ve never actually said it out loud. I'd prolly go with exECutor, given I have no TV ads or anything like that to guide me.
@CodingItWrong @wezm @kalleboo We have an official answer: https://github.com/ctm/executor/issues/8
(plus a reply guy who thinks it was appropriate to correct the author, but hey … can't all be winners)
