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Didn't NeXT sell their hardware operation before they sold themselves to Apple? They did have a customer base, and it probably was larger than Be's, though.
by bediger 17y ago
Didn't NeXT sell their hardware operation before they sold themselves to Apple?
They did have a customer base, and it probably was larger than Be's, though.
- gwern 17y agoThey did sell it: > NeXT withdrew from the hardware business in 1993 and the company was renamed NeXT Software Inc; subsequently 300 of the 540 staff employees were laid off.[1] NeXT negotiated to sell the hardware business including the Fremont factory to Canon.[1] Canon later pulled out of the deal. Work on the PowerPC machines was stopped along with all hardware production. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/NeXT#1993.E2.80.931996:_NeXT_Software https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/NeXT#1993.E2.... Wonder how many of those customers followed NeXT to Apple, and whether that and the greater maturity was worth a fifth of a billion dollars.