With the purchase of NeXT and subsequent development of Mac OS X, AppleTalk was strictly a legacy system.

The format was common on NeXT systems and on early Web pages.

Apple's board of directors decided NeXTSTEP was a better choice and purchased NeXT in 1996 for $ 429 million, bringing back Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

The 68030 was used in many models of the Apple Macintosh II and Commodore Amiga series of personal computers, NeXT Cube, Sun Microsystems Sun 3 / 80 desktop workstation ( a member of the " sun3x " architecture, where the earlier " sun3 " used a 68020 ), later Alpha Microsystems multiuser systems, and some descendants of the Atari ST line such as the Atari TT and the Atari Falcon.

The 68040 was also used in other personal computers, such as the Amiga 4000 and Amiga 4000T, as well as a number of workstations, Alpha Microsystems servers, the HP 9000 / 400 series, and later versions of the NeXT computer.

Another of the original Mach developers, Avie Tevanian, was formerly head of software at NeXT, then Chief Software Technology Officer at Apple Computer until March 2006.

Next, Inc. ( later Next Computer, Inc. and Next Software, Inc. and stylized as NeXT ) was an American computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets.

The first major outside investment was from Ross Perot, who invested after seeing a segment about NeXT on The Entrepreneurs.

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.

Initially the NeXT Computer was targeted at US higher education establishments only, with a base price of $ 6, 500.

The NeXT Computer was based on the new 25 MHz Motorola 68030 central processing unit ( CPU ).

These drives were relatively new to the market, and the NeXT was the first computer to use them.

Jobs was explicit in ensuring NeXT staff did not use the latter terminology, lest the NeXT machines be compared to competing Sun workstations.

The project was known as the NeXT RISC Workstation ( NRW ).

Tim Berners-Lee used a NeXT Computer in 1991 to create the first web browser and web server ; accordingly, NeXT was instrumental in the development of the World Wide Web.

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 withdrew from the hardware business in 1993 and the company was renamed NeXT Software Inc ; subsequently 300 of the 540 staff employees were laid off.

NeXT partnered with Sun to create OpenStep which was NeXTSTEP sans the Mach-based kernel.

As NeXT expanded more office space was needed.

* NeXT is founded by Steve Jobs after he resigns from Apple Computer.

The NeXT Computer ( also called the NeXT Computer System ) was a high-end workstation computer developed, manufactured, and sold by NeXT Inc., a company founded by Steve Jobs, from 1988 until 1990.

* The Journey is the Reward, Jeffrey Young's biography covering Steve Jobs ' life until shortly after he founded NeXT computer company, has a wealth of carefully researched information about Markkula's nearly two-decade saga at Apple.

Imaginet LLC was founded in 1991 as a NeXT Computer and Apple Computer publishing Value Added Reseller.

After Apple removed Steve Jobs from management in 1985, he left the company and attempted — with funding from Ross Perot and his own pockets — to create the " next big thing ": the result was NeXT.

She was also one of the original employees of NeXT ( the company formed by Steve Jobs after leaving Apple in 1985 ), working as the Creative Director.

In late 1996, Apple purchased NeXT, and Steve Jobs returned to Apple after a 12-year hiatus following his forced resignation from the company in 1985.

WriteNow was owned by NeXT, and released for the Macintosh in 1985, published by the T / Maker Company.

Jobs, who had been ousted from the company in 1985, returned to become Apple's CEO in 1996 after his company NeXT was bought by Apple Inc., and he brought with him a new corporate philosophy of recognizable products and simple design.

Crow left Apple in 1985 to become a co-founder of Steve Jobs ' NeXT.

The NeXT Computer used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN became the world's first web server.

* December 20 – Steve Jobs ' company NeXT is bought by Apple Computer, the company co-founded by Jobs.

NeXTSTEP ( also written NeXTstep, NeXTStep, and NEXTSTEP ) was an object-oriented, multitasking operating system developed by NeXT Computer to run on its range of proprietary workstation computers, such as the NeXTcube.

The last version, 3. 3, was released in early 1995, by which time it ran not only on the Motorola 68000 family processors used in NeXT computers, but also Intel x86, Sun SPARC, and HP PA-RISC-based systems.

The games Doom, its level ( WAD ) editor, and Quake with its respective level editor were all developed by id Software on NeXT machines.

Following the demise of the various incarnations of NeXT ( started by Steve Jobs in the late 1980s and merged with Apple Computer in 1997 ), the Trillium software was published under the GNU General Public License, with work continuing as gnuspeech.

In the late 1980s several companies were actively watching the 88000 for future use, including NeXT, Apple Computer and Apollo Computer, but all gave up by the time the 88110 was available in 1990.

The Enterprise Objects Framework ( or more commonly, EOF ) was introduced by NeXT in 1994 as a pioneering object-relational mapping product for its NeXTSTEP and OpenStep development platforms.

The NeXT engineers wanted to apply the advantages of object-oriented programming, by getting objects to " talk " to relational databases.

EOF 1. 0 was the first product released by NeXT using the Foundation Kit and introduced autoreleased objects to the developer community.

It was created by NeXT Computer, Inc. using their OpenStep system, whose use of Objective-C made the package very easy to write.

A NeXT Computer was used by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN to develop the world's first web server software, CERN HTTPd, and also used to write the first web browser, WorldWideWeb.

The NeXT Computer was followed by the NeXTcube in 1990.

This gave NeXT a foothold in this market that lasted into the late 1990s, even after their purchase by Apple Inc.

Sales on the NeXT platform could be explained by NeXTs limited marketshare, but the failure on the PC was another issue.