Frank Siegert’s collection of NeXTSTEP programs (1996)
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" Datacase is a sort-of frontend to FreeWAIS. It uses the wais indexing engine to build indexes of data you give to Datacase. I build this tool out of my growing need to get access to little data sniplets fast. Often I encounter something nice, funny, important, etc. in the news or in the web. Now with Datacase storing this information is easy: highlight it in any application or terminal window, press the ALT-shortkey, give it a nick name (Datacase opens a dialog for check-in) and that was it. The index is rebuilded automatically in a few seconds, regardless how many data is in the database.
Datacase provides fast full text retrieval and understands natural english as query language. Data is presented in a special retrieval window that can highlight certain portions of text very fast."
Thats Cisco level security right there.
NeXT later plugged that particular hole...
This was 1996. Did KDE exist then?
since windowmaker didn't implement the dock in the same way, porting fiend didn't make much sense. instead, it features a clip that includes desktop switching in its icon. the GWorkspace implemention for GNUstep also adds fiend features right in, and looks slightly different, so it is quite unlikely that this is anything but a genuine NeXTStep desktop.
in 1996 NeXTStep was still in active use and development and also available for intel PCs. (the last release was 1997. it was supported until 2002) (myself, i was using NeXT workstations until 2005)
greetings, eMBee.
The first Konsole commit on git has a Changelog which goes back to April 1998, but that already has version number 0.8.6 (https://cgit.kde.org/konsole.git/diff/ChangeLog?id=d8f741181... ), so it's not implausible that you would have a Konsole in 1996 or shortly after.
For some time I've wanted to fish out early builds of popular/established furniture like KDE and GNOME to track how they've developed over the years. There are old screenshots online and that gets 99% there but being able to leave a trail of functioning VMs in my wake would be cool.