OpenSTEP for VMS

From: pb_at_Colorado.EDU <(pb_at_Colorado.EDU)>
Date: Wed Mar 6 12:12:42 2002

>On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:43:31PM -0500, Jeff Hellige wrote:
>[snip]
>> This could partly be due to Apple giving it away to NeXT hardware
>> owners in '99.
>
>You happen to have any idea how this was done? Public FTP, shipped CDs
>or some other form? I'm looking for a NeXTstep release; vendors only
>seem to ship OpenStep these days (if at all; it's been a while since
>I contacted one).
>
>--
>Sune Stjerneby <sst_at_vmunix.dk>
> - Part of an RFC 1876-compliant network.

It was done by shipping CDs. Owners of NeXT hardware were to contact
Apple (via telephone, fax, or e-mail, I think) with their machine serial
number (supposedly also software serial number, but that turned out not
to be required), and request the Y2K patches. Since those patches were
only applicable to NS3.3 or OS4.2, you would also get NS3.3 or OS4.2,
if you requested them. (I believe that if you had anything less than
OS4.0, you would get NS3.3; if you had OS4.0 or OS4.1, you would get
OS4.2. I also believe that you could get as many copies as
you had machine serial numbers. I am not certain of either of these
last two points.)

Some of these software packages appear for auction or sale in various
venues--or, that is what I assume they are, when they are advertised as
brand new, and including the Y2K patches. (There was at least one bug
introduced by the Y2K patches, but I don't think that a fix has been
released. It had to do with an unfortunate interaction between gnutar
and some (or one) of the Lighthouse Design programs.)

PB Schechter
Received on Wed Mar 06 2002 - 12:12:42 GMT