Endgame.
via Mac the Knife
>Finally, Mac daddy John Carmack, the owner, founder and lead programmer of gaming company Id Software, weighed in with a critique of Apple's OSes:
"Mac OS: From a money making standpoint, the only OS other than win32 that matters, and it doesn't matter all that much. ... I have zero respect for the Mac OS on a technical basis. They just stood still and let Microsoft run right over them from waaay behind. I wouldn't develop on it.
"NEXTSTEP My favorite environment. NT and linux both have advantages in some areas, but if they were on equal footing I would choose NEXTSTEP hands down. It has all the power of Unix (there are lots of things I miss in NT), the best UI (IMHO, of course), and it just makes sense on so many more levels than Windows. Yes, you can make Windows do anything you want to if you have enough time to beat on it, but you can come out of it feeling like you just walked through a sewer. ... If Apple Does The Right Thing with Rhapsody, I will be behind them as much as I can. NEXTSTEP needs a couple things to support games properly (video mode changing and low level sound access). If apple/next will provide them, I will personally port our current win32 products over."
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I wonder what he REALLY thinks.
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P.S. Doom was written in a NeXT environment. |
