Luca Fillighedu has found a 15 year old video on YouTube of Steve Jobs demonstrating NextStep. If you’re a student of OS history, as I am, this is a fabulous journey down memory lane. And, as Luca points out, look at how many of the features of NextStep ended up in Windows and MacOS today.Â
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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When I was in university, a friend of mine bought an old NeXT cube from a surplus sale. At the time, it was amazing how well the machine performed especially against Windows machines of the day, and how nice the UI looked even with a Unix under the hood. The hardware setup was fairly impressive as well, with one cord from power to cube, one from cube to monitor, one from monitor to keyboard and one from keyboard to mouse – much more simpler and less awkward than even current machines.
Seeing the cube in action was a little depressing, knowing that if the company was still in business the state of personal computers might have been far more advanced. Thankfully Apple adopted a lot of the technology behind the NeXT systems in Mac OS X.