NeXT Computer
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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer hardware, software |
| Founded | 1985 |
| Founder(s) | Steve Jobs |
| Headquarters | Redwood City, California, USA |
| Employees | 530 (1993) |
NeXT, Inc. (later Next Computer, Inc. and Next Software,Inc.) was a US company founded to produce its own computer platform: the NeXT computer.
NeXT was founded by Apple-cofounder Steve Jobs after he was forced out of his own company. NeXT Computer was a play on words: this was Steve Jobs' next computer. The initial vision was similar to Apple's: NeXT developed their own proprietary software to run exclusively on their own proprietary hardware. This included two generations of keyboards.
The company largely failed to sell its expensive hardware, but its object-oriented operating system environment NeXTStep was very influential on the industry at large in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Later versions of the operating environment was made to run on other host systems as OpenStep.
NeXT Software, Inc. was eventually acquired by Apple in late 1996, and NeXTStep/OpenStep became the basis for future versions of MacOS. Steve Jobs returned to Apple with the acquisition and quickly made his revenge by ousting Apple's CEO in 1997, taking back control of his company.
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External links
- NeXT on Wikipedia.
