<story><title>Build your own NeXT with a virtual machine</title><url>https://learn.adafruit.com/build-your-own-next-with-a-virtual-machine?view=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codetrotter</author><text>&amp;gt; Years ago I acquired and refurbished a NeXT cube. They were certainly a distinctive-looking computer for the day, but I don&amp;#x27;t know that there was anything particularly special bout the hardware that was worth recreating. The software was the interesting bit.&lt;p&gt;A modern computer running the whole thing in emulation is not the same though.&lt;p&gt;Whereas for example an FPGA implementation, that’s in line with my idea of “build your own NeXT”. Even though someone might say, that’s emulation too. And they’d be correct in a way. But like, do you see what I mean?</text></item><item><author>mumblemumble</author><text>In this particular case it seems reasonably fair, because this is recreating what NeXT had become by the end. While they did continue shipping units for a couple years after the pivot, NeXT&amp;#x27;s focus on building hardware didn&amp;#x27;t even last half the period between the company&amp;#x27;s founding and its acquisition by Apple.&lt;p&gt;Years ago I acquired and refurbished a NeXT cube. They were certainly a distinctive-looking computer for the day, but I don&amp;#x27;t know that there was anything particularly special bout the hardware that was worth recreating. The software was the interesting bit.</text></item><item><author>ragingrobot</author><text>While it&amp;#x27;s neat to be able to run the actual OS, the title as provided from the blog is a bit misleading. Adafruit also did something similar a few days ago with Solaris.
I may be the only one as I see no one else has commented so, but when I read &amp;quot;build your own...&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;m thinking the actual hardware, or compatible. They should call these articles something like &amp;quot;Run XXX OS and software on your existing machine.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tablespoon</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Years ago I acquired and refurbished a NeXT cube....&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A modern computer running the whole thing in emulation is not the same though.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Whereas for example an FPGA implementation, that’s in line with my idea of “build your own NeXT”.&lt;p&gt;But the OP is not that.  IIRC, there were two distinct versions of NeXTSTEP: a 68k version for their custom hardware, and a x86 version for PCs.  The OP is setting up VM for the latter (which given its age does not seem like a trivial thing, either).&lt;p&gt;So if you must have an FPGA version, it would be equally equivalent to have one that simulates a mid-90s IBM clone.</text></comment>
<story><title>Build your own NeXT with a virtual machine</title><url>https://learn.adafruit.com/build-your-own-next-with-a-virtual-machine?view=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codetrotter</author><text>&amp;gt; Years ago I acquired and refurbished a NeXT cube. They were certainly a distinctive-looking computer for the day, but I don&amp;#x27;t know that there was anything particularly special bout the hardware that was worth recreating. The software was the interesting bit.&lt;p&gt;A modern computer running the whole thing in emulation is not the same though.&lt;p&gt;Whereas for example an FPGA implementation, that’s in line with my idea of “build your own NeXT”. Even though someone might say, that’s emulation too. And they’d be correct in a way. But like, do you see what I mean?</text></item><item><author>mumblemumble</author><text>In this particular case it seems reasonably fair, because this is recreating what NeXT had become by the end. While they did continue shipping units for a couple years after the pivot, NeXT&amp;#x27;s focus on building hardware didn&amp;#x27;t even last half the period between the company&amp;#x27;s founding and its acquisition by Apple.&lt;p&gt;Years ago I acquired and refurbished a NeXT cube. They were certainly a distinctive-looking computer for the day, but I don&amp;#x27;t know that there was anything particularly special bout the hardware that was worth recreating. The software was the interesting bit.</text></item><item><author>ragingrobot</author><text>While it&amp;#x27;s neat to be able to run the actual OS, the title as provided from the blog is a bit misleading. Adafruit also did something similar a few days ago with Solaris.
I may be the only one as I see no one else has commented so, but when I read &amp;quot;build your own...&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;m thinking the actual hardware, or compatible. They should call these articles something like &amp;quot;Run XXX OS and software on your existing machine.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nuclearnice1</author><text>Maybe the next four words of the title provide the required clarification?&lt;p&gt;“Build your own NeXT with a virtual machine”</text></comment>