I was pretty involved with the NeXT community back in the day. If you recall, NeXT started as a workstation for higher ed. I worked at MIT in the 90s and compa

I was pretty involved with the NeXT community back in the day. If you recall, NeXT started as a workstation for higher ed. I worked at MIT in the 90s and compared to the Sun and SGI workstations departments routinely bought, NeXT was less expensive. And since it ran Unix, people could use most of the software they were used to. The premier spreadsheet for NeXT was Lotus Improv, which introduced many features that we take for granted today, like pivot tables. For that period of time, the display was so much better than anything comparable. Even the original greyscale display was stunning. Steve Jobs only wanted the best software anyway; he never wanted lowest common denominator software. Thanks to Display Postscript, it became worth it to buy a NeXT to use FreeHand or Illustrator that could do things other platforms couldn’t when it came to desktop publishing and graphic design.