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NeXT sold maybe 50,000 systems in 5 years, less than the number of PCs that a typical large company has stuffed in cubicles. And from that small install base,
by steveb 15y ago
NeXT sold maybe 50,000 systems in 5 years, less than the number of PCs that a typical large company has stuffed in cubicles.
And from that small install base, emerged the first Web browser, Doom, and Mathematica.
They were amazing, if flawed products. Every system came with Mathematica, a full dictionary and the complete works of Shakespeare.
I remember having to go use Windows NT after NeXT failed in the market. And I remember, ten years later, holding the first iPhone in my hand and knowing where it came from.
- dman 15y agoIs that you Steve Ballmer?
- daeken 15y agoHow is this a constructive comment? For that matter, how does that even remotely follow? This comment baffles me on so many levels.
- hugh3 15y agoFor that matter, how does that even remotely follow? I can only assume it was based on the fact that the OP is called "steveb". A brief look at his profile, however, is sufficient to satisfy me that this is not, in fact, Steve Ballmer.
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