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(...) NeXT Software was the company, NeXTcube and NeXTstation were the two machines, and NeXTSTEP was the OS. After Apple acquired NeXT (it's more the other way around, actually), a lot of the NeXTSTEP features carried over into Mac OS X, such as (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Steve, do you think TLG would object to leJOS NeXT? Legally I it should be okay, since I don't think people can trademark a common word like 'Next'. I'm not sure if capitalization of letters matters with regards to trademarks though. Someone (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) I've also been involved as a coach/mentor since FLL was introduced to our small country. And as a matter of fact I even won the Adult Coach/Mentor Award last year (URL) soon as I can get hold of one of the Mindstorms NXT, I would ask the kids (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Didn't say it was! :-)! (...) Bingo! (...) I'm running it now and its quite a nice little OS. Like we both said, the real work is just asking tasks to manage the specific resources of the NXT. (...) Again, totally agree (as I stated in my last (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The processor speed (even underclocked) will not be an issue. There real issue which I see many people have talked about is the amount of memory will be in the NXT. On the website for uCOS-II there is a RAM calculation (for the Intel 80x86 (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Regular browsers of Brickshelf might have noticed that I added a new track plans section to my gallery: (URL) the 9V folder (URL) there are useful modules such as Curves (URL) and Double Bends (URL) , conforming to various minimum radii depending on (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Would you like to join our project? :) We're still in planning/design mode, so additional input is always good. (20 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) ... (...) As it turns out, I just started on a project like that. I intentionally went out of my way to avoid using the letters N, X, & T right NeXT to each other. My totally unofficial opinion would be something like this. There's not much (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Is the RCX.NET project's name technically a trademark violation? I just started working with José David Parra on a redesign of his original namespace, so now maybe he'll have to rename it, too. :) What's LEGO's position on code namespaces, (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Thanks, Steve. At least Lego made it easy for us to play around with the letters to come up with a new name, as Philo mentioned in this thread. :) - Brian (20 years ago, 27-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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