Peter Binder Steve Jobs has not worked at Apple, which he co-founded, from its inception to the present day. But what did he do in between?
Steve Jobs, along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, founded the company on April 1, 1976. At that time, it was called Apple Computer, Inc. After several successful years, in 1983 Steve Jobs persuaded the then CEO of PepsiCo - John Sculley to cooperate with a memorable statement: "Do you want to keep selling fresh water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?"
Sculley left a promising position at PepsiCo to become CEO of Apple. The initial relationship of the Jobs & Sculley duo seemed unshakable. The press loved them and they became practically the mouthpieces of the computer industry. In 1984, Jobs introduced the first Macintosh computer. But the sales are not dazzling. Sculley attempts to reorganize Apple. He relegates Jobs to a position where he has practically no influence on the running of the company. The first serious conflicts arise, in this atmosphere Wozniak leaves Apple.
Jobs intrigues and tries to remove Sculley. He sends him on a business trip to China that he made up. But Sculley finds out about it. Jobs is shut down for good, resigning and leaving Apple with a few employees. He sells all the shares and keeps only one. Soon after, he founds the truc company NeXT Computer. A small team of engineers developed a custom NeXT computer with a Motorola 68040 processor, a printer, an operating system, and a set of development tools. In 1989, the first final version of NeXTSTEP saw the light of day.
The black computer is several years ahead of the competition. Experts are excited about Jobs' new product. Customers are more cautious, the computer is not selling well. The price is too high. The factory itself is closed, only 50 computers were produced. In 000, NeXT Computer, Inc. renames to NeXT Software, Inc. The NeXTSTEP operating system is ported to Intel, PA-RISC and SPARC processors for easy portability. NeXTSTEP was to become the system of the 1993s. But he was far from achieving this goal.
NeXTSTEP is based on BSD Unix source code from the University of California at Berkeley. It is an object-oriented Unix, compared to competing Mac OS and Windows, it is stable and has excellent support for network tools. Display PostScript Level 2 and the implementation of True Color technology are used for displaying and printing documents. Multimedia is a matter of course. NeXTmail e-mail supports not only Rich Text Format (RTF) files but also sound and graphics.
The first Internet browser WorldWideWeb was also developed on the NeXTSTEP platform. John Caramack created two of his most popular games on the NeXTcube: Doom and Wolfenstein 3D. The pearl is that in 1993 NeXTSTEP supported six languages - including Czech.
The last stable version of the system was labeled 3.3 and was released in February 1995.
Meanwhile, problems are coming at Apple from all sides. Computer sales are falling, radical modernization of the operating system is constantly being postponed. Steve Jobs is hired in 1996 as an external consultant. It should help with the selection of an already ready operating system. Quite surprisingly, on December 20, 1996, Apple buys NeXT Software, Inc. for $429 million. Jobs becomes "interim" CEO with a salary of $1 a year.
The NeXT system thus laid the foundations for the developing Mac OS operating system. If you don't believe me, watch the extensive video below in which a young Steve Jobs, without his current uniform, introduces the NeXT operating system. The elements we know from the current version of Mac OS are recognizable at every step.
Whether it is the displayed dock or the menu of individual applications, moving windows including displaying their contents, etc. There is simply a similarity here, and not exactly a small one. The video also shows how timeless NeXT was, mainly thanks to it creating the excellent Mac OS operating system, which is so praised by Apple fans and users.
Source: www.tuaw.com
at minute 1:50 I was afraid that Illustrator would start there :) but still, what an apt prediction
quite a bit of praise for the Macintosh, huh :D
Well... I'm missing something there... A black turtleneck and jeans...
Well nwm hey... The article is nice, but you need to look it up on wikipedia :D btw: I think you have a few inaccuracies there... "When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, the first step was to buy NeXT for 400 million If I remember correctly, it was different - Apple was looking for a new direction for operating systems and they thought the then emerging NeXT operating system was very good, which they also bought in 96... I don't remember exactly what the machinations were there, but Steve Jobs got part of that 400 million fee in Apple shares... a little later, when the company was 3 quarters before complete collapse, Steve returned to the company cell ;-)
Thanks for the reminder. I corrected and supplemented the wording in the article and other data.