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Re:A secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple bu... by sjwright on Friday March 20, 2020 @01:00AM (#22635059)
Be was a tech demo at best. It looked finished on the surface but had less than 10% of what a complete operating system needs in terms of feature depth, libraries and extensive real word testing.

Steve Jobs was utterly critical, but NeXT technology was also insanely valuable.

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Re:A secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple bu... by kls on Friday March 20, 2020 @12:25PM (#22638858)
Right it was a great single user workstation, but had no where near the underlining stack to compete in a corp environment. Be did one thing and, did that one thing light years better than anything on the market. next was the clear choice for what apple needed to stay competitive.
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