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He's obviously in pain here, selling business software on NT of all platforms. The timing of this video is funny because soon after he went back to Apple to re
by cowmix 12y ago
He's obviously in pain here, selling business software on NT of all platforms.
The timing of this video is funny because soon after he went back to Apple to recapture the glory which is consumer electronics.
- pjmlp 12y agoYou are talking about the days when Apple was about to close its doors after the Copland failed experiment and NT was picking up steam against UNIX based workstations. In 1996 it appeared NT was going to conquer the IT workstation desktops. NeXT was also going multi-platform with OpenStep.
- rbanffy 12y agoIt must have been painful for him to give up on NeXT's beautiful hardware. To see his beautiful software running on lesser computers probably did hurt.
- pjmlp 12y agoMy final project assignment at the university was to port a particle simulation engine from NeXT/Objective-C to Windows/C++. The professor had his Cube disconnected on his office, piled with other stuff. No one believed NeXT would survive.
- rbanffy 12y ago> No one believed NeXT would survive. And, surprisingly, now every Mac is, essentially, a NeXT.