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neXt Computer

  • 28-08-2013 12:25pm
    #1
    gugleguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭


    This was Steve Jobs' "cool" project prior to his return to Apple.
    For the time, the next was a revolutionary machine, notwithstanding its' sheer expense.
    Looking back though, it seems to have been a bit over rated. There was no successor to the neXt. I don't recall seeing much software on sale for the next in the shops.

    The of the neXt 3 votes

    Yes, the neXt computer should have a hallowed place in the memory of any respecting techie
    0%
    no, the neXt machine seems to have been over - rated.
    66%
    musiknonstopcereberus 2 votes
    It depends what an Atari Jaguar would think of the neXt machine
    33%
    gugleguy 1 vote


Comments

  • #2
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,186 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    It was a business system, software for it would not have been on-sale in consumer retail outlets. MacOS X and hence iOS were developed from NextStep.


  • #3
    Gamayun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 448 ✭✭Gamayun


    The only thing I remember of them was that one was used by Tim Berners-Lee when creating the World Wide Web.

    Here's Tim's own panegyric on the machine (and man).

    So they have a place in Internet history.


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,591 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Expense is the key word.
    You can have cool things if budget is not an option.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_%28company%29#Accomplishments

    The trick is to commercialise it


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