Re: NeXT

[Benedikt Stefansson]

> Is anybody interested in a port of Swarm to the NeXT
> platform?

Interesting question. NeXT is an amazing platform, although now one has
to contend oneself with running OpenStep on an Intel box or NeXT Mach OS
on an elderly second hand NeXT box. 

But what does it entail to port Swarm to NeXT? The NeXT Mach OS used
Display PostScript, but can anybody fill me in on what the Solaris,HP-UX
and Windows/NT versions of OpenStep use to drive the GUI? 

A port of Swarm to OpenStep would probably create some incompatabilities
between the vanilla Unix and the OpenStep versions, but the bonus would
be that the development tools for Objective-C on OpenStep are second to
none, and this could potentially make the development of Swarm sims
accessible to a much larger audience. The downside of course is that
OpenStep is commercial software. 

-Benedikt 

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