> NeXT didn't have any of the advantages of NeWS and AJAX when run over the network. Just the stencil/paint imaging model. But no light weight processes, local event handling, object oriented programming, etc.
Not in Display PostScript, perhaps, but NeXT definitely had OOP pervasively; where do you think the modern Apple use of Objective-C came from?
Yes, I mean no object oriented PostScript programming. The NeXT user interface toolkit was entirely implemented in Objective C, and the PostScript code it sent to the Display PostScript server was very simple and flat, not a customized per-application protocol, and didn't do much more than drawing.
That's why it was such a natural progression for Apple to switch from Display PostScript to Cocoa, which was the moral equivalent of PDF, which is just PostScript without the Turing-complete programming language part.
Not in Display PostScript, perhaps, but NeXT definitely had OOP pervasively; where do you think the modern Apple use of Objective-C came from?