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For one of my summer jobs in college, this is around 2005, I had to port an old NeXTSTEP phone system to Mac OS X. I was amazed at how easy this was, considerin

For one of my summer jobs in college, this is around 2005, I had to port an old NeXTSTEP phone system to Mac OS X. I was amazed at how easy this was, considering it was just taking Carbon to Cocoa, and amazed at how ahead of its time NeXTStep's APIs were. Project Builder (XCode) and Interface Builder were created on these machines. Then bought by Steve@Apple.

aaronbrethorst 10y ago
Carbon was the name for the cleaned up, sanitized version of the old Classic Macintosh APIs that was compatible with OS X[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_(API) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_(API) Steve founded NeXT after getting fired from Apple, as is reflected in part by the name of the company. Apple acquired NeXT in 1996 for $429mm, which is how Steve Jobs came back to Apple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT#1996.E2.80.9397:_Apple_merger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT#1996.E2.80.9397:_Apple_me... [1] Well, what was then called OS X.
- charlesism 10y ago
  ...and Avie, from this video, came to Apple with him :)
- duncan_bayne 10y ago
  I've heard that purchase described as "Jobs buying Apple for $-429mm" :) I still remember reading reviews of the NeXT OS as a child, wishing I had the hardware to run it (from memory I was still running a PC at the time - an original IBM PC, which was considered a dinosaur even then).
eddieroger 10y ago
> Then bought by Steve@Apple. Um, what? Steve founded NeXT and was with them with Apple bought them out for the OS.