NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video]

Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by slashblake on Sunday August 21, 2016 @03:42PM (#12332402)

For one of my summer jobs in college, this is around 2005, I had to port an old NeXTSTEP phone system to Mac OS X. I was amazed at how easy this was, considering it was just taking Carbon to Cocoa, and amazed at how ahead of its time NeXTStep's APIs were. Project Builder (XCode) and Interface Builder were created on these machines. Then bought by Steve@Apple.

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Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by aaronbrethorst on Sunday August 21, 2016 @04:00PM (#12332480)

Carbon was the name for the cleaned up, sanitized version of the old Classic Macintosh APIs that was compatible with OS X[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_(API)

Steve founded NeXT after getting fired from Apple, as is reflected in part by the name of the company. Apple acquired NeXT in 1996 for $429mm, which is how Steve Jobs came back to Apple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT#1996.E2.80.9397:_Apple_me...

[1] Well, what was then called OS X.

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Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by duncan_bayne on Sunday August 21, 2016 @06:00PM (#12332913)

I've heard that purchase described as "Jobs buying Apple for $-429mm" :)

I still remember reading reviews of the NeXT OS as a child, wishing I had the hardware to run it (from memory I was still running a PC at the time - an original IBM PC, which was considered a dinosaur even then).

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Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by charlesism on Sunday August 21, 2016 @04:07PM (#12332507)

...and Avie, from this video, came to Apple with him :)

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Re:NeXT vs. Sun (1991) [video] by eddieroger on Sunday August 21, 2016 @09:49PM (#12333641)

> Then bought by Steve@Apple.

Um, what? Steve founded NeXT and was with them with Apple bought them out for the OS.

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