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My guess is because NeXT was the company Jobs started when he left Apple in 1985 .
by spl757 4y ago
My guess is because NeXT was the company Jobs started when he left Apple in 1985 .
- sircastor 4y agoI agree with this. It is almost certainly historical - macOS (formerly Mac OS X) is a direct descendant of NeXTStep (OpenStep I believe) and inherited a bunch of codebase from it. I doubt it was explicitly set like that.