[Liverpool] Retro Computing

Andrew Williams andy at tensixtyone.com
Fri Feb 6 11:08:12 UTC 2009


2009/2/6 Adrian McEwen <adrian at mcqn.net>:
> If it's NeXTSTEP you want, just get a Mac running OSX ;-)  I think the
> NeXT Cubes are impossible to get hold of, but I know a couple of people
> who got the pizza box NeXT machines a few years ago.  I still think the
> SGIs were cooler :-p

It's quite strange really, Apple bought NeXT Machines to "buy back"
Steve Jobs, what they got as a extra made OSX what it is today. The
legacy of NeXT will live on for a long time, even if Apple seem a
little misdirected these days.

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