You can download the floppy images from:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=72667
James
http://webpages.charter.net/jrice54/classiccomp2.html
Fr?d?ric Wailly wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Owen Robertson wrote:
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>>on 10/3/02 12:30 AM, Lawrence Walker at lgwalker_at_mts.net wrote:
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>>>Actually there are Intel "white" Next's. Doubtfull they would be Pentium
>>>based tho.
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>>I have a NeXTstep 3.x CD that says it contains the black and white (NeXT
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>and
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>>Intel) versions of the OS. So by 'Intel' does it mean PCs, or specialized
>>Intel based hardware? I always thought it meant that it would run on 486
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>and
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>>higher PCs, but I haven't been able to get it to boot on any, which leads
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>me
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>>to believe that it isn't for generic Intel hardware. Or maybe I need a boot
>>floppy which I don't have.
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>It runs just fine on Pentium systems, at least with the subset of video
>and network cards it supports. Up until the end of 2000, DreamWork's
>Animation used a variety of Dell Pentium systems, maybe even some PIIs,
>for their pencil test stations. In 2001, we moved to Linux/Intel based
>system.
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>If you need a NEXTSTEP 3.3 boot floppy, I'll mail you an image which you
>can use dd or rawrite.exe to put onto a 1.44MB floppy.
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>-brian.
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>Hello.
>
>Is it possible to mail me this boot disk image (for booting NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a
>PC).
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>Thanks.
>
>frederic.wailly_at_wanadoo.fr
Received on Tue Aug 26 2003 - 12:23:00 BST