NeXT's first factory was completed in Fremont, California in 1987.

NeXT's first workstation was officially named the NeXT Computer, although it was widely referred to as " the cube " because of its distinctive case, a 1 ft x 1 ft x 1 ft magnesium cube, an edict of Jobs ' designed by Apple IIc case designer Frogdesign.

Selling through a retailer was a major change from NeXT's original business model of only selling directly to students and educational institutions.

The operating system was ported to Intel's architecture because of a change in NeXT's business strategy.

NeXTSTEP 3. x was later ported to PA-RISC and SPARC-based platforms, for a total of four versions: NeXTSTEP / NeXT ( for NeXT's 68k " black boxes "), NeXTSTEP / Intel, NeXTSTEP / PA-RISC and NeXTSTEP / SPARC.

NeXT's health insurance plan offered benefits to not only married couples but unmarried couples and same-sex couples, although the latter privilege was later withdrawn due to insurance complications.

The result was OpenStep API, which ran on multiple underlying operating systems, including NeXT's own OPENSTEP.

NeXT's implementation was called OPENSTEP for Mach and its first release ( 4. 0 ) superseded Nextstep 3. 3 on NeXT, Sun and Intel IA-32 systems.

NeXT's second attempt came in 1994 with the Enterprise Objects Framework ( EOF ) version 1, a complete rewrite that was far more modular and OpenStep compatible.

Additionally, NeXT's Interface Builder let the team experiment with different UIs at a rate that was not possible on other platforms, and the system evolved rapidly during this period.

One of NeXT's first tasks was to design an object-oriented operating system, NEXTSTEP.

The two would communicate with NeXT's Portable Distributed Objects technology, which was known as Distributed Objects Everywhere ( DOE ), later released as NEO.

He was among the founders of NeXT, Inc., serving as NeXT's vice president of software development.

TextEdit is a simple, open source word processor and text editor, first featured in NeXT's NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP.

In 1987, he invested $ 20 million in exchange for 16 % of NeXT's stock and subsequently joined the board of directors in 1988.

Canon also served as NeXT's distributor in Japan.

NeXT's original investor Ross Perot resigned from the board of directors in June 1991 to dedicate more time to Perot Systems, a Plano, Texas-based systems integrator.

NeXT's former campus at 3475 Deer Creek Road in Palo Alto is now used by SAP AG.

Despite NeXT's limited commercial success, the company had a wide-ranging impact on the computer industry.

Object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces became more common after the 1988 release of the NeXTcube and NeXTSTEP, when other companies started to emulate NeXT's object-oriented system.

Historical alternatives include Sun's NeWS, which failed in the market, and NeXT's Display PostScript, both PostScript-based systems supporting user-definable display-side procedures, which X lacked.

The basic layout options of HTML 1. 0 and 2. 0 are attributable to those features available in NeXT's Text class.

Implementations of that standard were released for Sun's Solaris, Windows NT, and NeXT's version of the Mach kernel.

Darwin's heritage began with NeXT's NeXTSTEP operating system ( later known as OPENSTEP ), first released in 1989.

Brabham was confident he could do better than Cooper, and in late 1959 he asked Tauranac to come to the UK and work with him, initially producing upgrade kits for Sunbeam Rapier and Triumph Herald road cars at his car dealership, Jack Brabham Motors, but with the long-term aim of designing racing cars.

The Falkland Islands Development Corporation was formed in mid 1984 and in its annual report at the end of that year it set out to increase employment opportunities by encouraging diversification, to increase population levels through selective immigration, to aim for long-term self-sufficiency and to improve community facilities.

He considered buying Cooper in partnership with Roy Salvadori and then in late 1959 he asked his friend Ron Tauranac to come to the UK and work with him, initially producing upgrade kits for Sunbeam Rapier and Triumph Herald road cars at his car dealership, Jack Brabham Motors, but with the long-term aim of designing racing cars.

His long-term aim was that Fulham would become a FA Premier League side within five years.

The aim is to discover a policy for selecting actions that minimizes some measure of a long-term cost ; i. e., the expected cumulative cost.

Mnemonics aim to translate information into a form that the human brain can retain better and even the process of applying this conversion might already aid the transfer of information to long-term memory.

Ellington's long-term aim became to extend the jazz form from the three-minute limit of the 78 rpm record side, of which he was an acknowledged master.

His long-term aim was to carve an empire for himself and his successors out of the ruins of the Ottoman empire.

In Wales, Welsh Nationalist party Plaid Cymru holds Welsh Independence as a long-term aim.

It was a long-term aim of the group to have a non-stop service between the airport and central London in order to counter the perceived distance from the capital both to the UK market and to potential passengers at the overseas destinations.

The Encyclopædia is later revealed to be an element in an act of misdirection, its real purpose being to concentrate a group of skilled physical scientists on a remote, resource-poor planet, with the long-term aim of revitalizing the technologically stagnant and scientifically dormant Empire.

The selected strategy may aim for any of a variety of specific objectives, including optimizing short-term unit margins, revenue growth, market share, long-term profitability, or other goals.

In the past decade, Gateshead Council has begun developing plans to regenerate the town, with the long-term aim of making Gateshead a city.

The aim is to establish whether The Body Volume Index has the potential to be used as a long-term computer based anthropometric measurement for health care.

Mohammad Reza Shah had intended it to be a non-violent regeneration of Iranian society through economic and social reforms, with the ultimate long-term aim of transforming Iran into a global economic and industrial power.

Its aim is to find and implement long-term, sustainable solutions which will increase the availability of educational technology and resources to domestic and international communities.

With the club facing administration or worse, local businessman and long-time fan Chris Ingram came to the rescue, becoming Chairman in February 2002 with an aim of trying to increase the club's income and to secure its long-term financial stability.

By not posing a long-term risk, and by having some level of IFF capability ( automatic or human-decision-based ), these systems aim to achieve compliance with the Ottawa Treaty, as for example the Metal Storm ADWS ( Area Denial Weapons System ).

The aim of the ABCF is to build an organization capable of offering long-term, non partisan support of class war political prisoners and prisoners of war ( heretoforth respectively PP, POWs ).

They generally aim to maximise their return and make an exit after 3 – 5 years while minimising risk to themselves, whereas the management rarely look beyond their careers at the company and will take a long-term view.

However, Barron's long-term aim was to produce an innovative microprocessor architecture intended for parallel processing, the transputer.

Aid can be subdivided into two categories: humanitarian aid ( emergency relief efforts, e. g. in response to natural disasters ), and development aid ( or foreign aid ), aimed at helping countries to achieve long-term sustainable economic growth, with the aim of achieving poverty reduction.

Tactics should be distinguished from military strategy, which is concerned with the overall means and plan for achieving a long-term outcome, and operational art, an intermediate level in which the aim is to convert the strategy into tactics.

Zurich is achieving this aim by working with long-term partnership with select non-profit organizations such as Practical Action, the Rainforest Alliance, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.