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by mpweiher 2655 days ago
Funny, for me NeXT pretty much was Smalltalk + Mac + Unix.

And there were mechanisms for an OpenDoc-like system of embedded content (maybe more like OLE). While the rough idea of OpenDoc was and is appealing, I don't think that version of the idea is actually tenable.

Alas, since it was killed, it sort of lives on and occupies that space as an ideal version of the rough idea, rather than as an artefact that can be criticised and improved upon.