Comments on: NextStep Demonstrated http://saunderslog.com/2006/07/25/nextstep-demonstrated/ A daily round table on the tech industry with experts and callers from all over the globe. Join us as we pick apart the news and get to the meat of what\'s happening out there. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:39:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: ian http://saunderslog.com/2006/07/25/nextstep-demonstrated/#comment-27228 ian Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:19:16 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2006/07/25/nextstep-demonstrated/#comment-27228 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. 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.

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