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I am intrigued by the XEROX Alto and Star ('70s-'82), the Apple Lisa ('83) and, of course, CRAYs ('75-ish). These were revolutionary machines indeed, they wrote golden pages in the history of computing. In the end of the 1980s, a new innovative product was ready to ship, created by a bunch of people coming from Apple: The NeXT platform.
And besides that great read, the OSNews article features a link to another great NeXT resource: Éric Lévénez's Le système d'exploitation NeXTSTEP, including lots of screen shots and images of the original machines.
Although the NeXTstations and NeXTcubes weren't inexpensive, also not back in their time, they were leading in technology and design. If you think of a PC, maybe an Intel 486 computer running DOS (obviously), e.g. back in 1993, with a NeXTstation running NeXTSTEP you would have been way beyond your wildest and nerdiest dreams and you would have been able to keep the lead of the herd for quite a while.
Sad enough, those days are over, at least when Apple bought NeXT in 1996/97, the machines NeXT produced within the eleven years it lived, are still beautiful and astonishing. Now, go over and have a lookfor yourself.
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