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You are talking about the days when Apple was about to close its doors after the Copland failed experiment and NT was picking up steam against UNIX based workstations.

In 1996 it appeared NT was going to conquer the IT workstation desktops.

NeXT was also going multi-platform with OpenStep.



It must have been painful for him to give up on NeXT's beautiful hardware. To see his beautiful software running on lesser computers probably did hurt.


My final project assignment at the university was to port a particle simulation engine from NeXT/Objective-C to Windows/C++.

The professor had his Cube disconnected on his office, piled with other stuff. No one believed NeXT would survive.


> No one believed NeXT would survive.

And, surprisingly, now every Mac is, essentially, a NeXT.




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