Huh - I know Apple’s first PowerBook 100 had an ad with Shaq on a plane, and then later one with Yao Ming… I guess Apple really wanted to crack the “I’m working on a plane damn it” market?

Yeah - even from the start, I remember NeXT marketing was spending a disproportionate amount of their time selling NeXT’s “object technology”, AppKit and Interface Builder, DPS as an advanced graphics model. It was good hunch from Steve, given how how modern NeXTSTEP feels in retrospect.

For some reason, though, it means that people overlook how NeXT’s hardware was _very_ far from fast. You weren’t going to get SGI level oomph from m68k and MO disks.

Yup, even with a hard drive the m68k turbo slab was no speed demon. Wasn't too bad on HPPA though.

As a Silhouette owner (for the plotter), same - I genuinely wonder whether the Chinese market have models... the type of Chinese-market product that seems to live on because it gets rebadged.

NeXTstep? (Leaving aside fun spitballing about whether Tahoe is morally OPENSTEP 26, and whether it was NeXT that actually bought Apple for negative $400 million...)

Alas, I never had access to any of the Next environments, until PPC MacOS.

I did hold a copy in my hands for 486-class machines in the college bookstore.

This is incredibly useful - not for Scheme, but for someone like me interested in bootstrapping languages and frameworks in general. I hope you find a way to share the best practices you've learned in a broader context.

Luckily, we can omit needless words... but AI hasn't integrated Strunk and White into SOUL.md yet.

TFA is a little unclear, but I think it might be a (userspace) driver signing situation?

It'll be interesting to see whether this is price-competitive versus remoting into a cluster. Might be for smaller orgs/consultants.

Once you parse the marketing speak, looks like there may be ARM ISA silicon in future System Z.

But, what are their legacy finance-sector customers asking for here? Are they trying to add ARM to LinuxONE, while maintaining the IBM hardware-based nine nines uptime strategy/sweet support contract paradigm?

If so, why don't the Visas of the world just buy 0xide, for example?

> develop new dual‑architecture hardware that helps enterprises run future AI and data intensive workloads with greater flexibility, reliability, and security.

> "This moment marks the latest step in our innovation journey for future generations of our IBM Z and LinuxONE systems, reinforcing our end-to-end system design as a powerful advantage."

Man, I'd love to play around with an emulator for that.