youtube.com— The video is long (35 minutes) but begins with Steve talking up how NeXTSTEP has “much, much better productivity apps” than other operating systems.
Oct 16, 2006View in Crawl 4
One of the biggest features in NeXT was display postcript, and the ability to add a drop shadow to any postscript file in any app. Once Steve Jobs came back on board and purchased NeXT, it was only a matter of time before that technology came to be OS X. Dock, Show and Hide, AddressBook, Show Fonts, all behave similarly to this video. And the networking of OS X is much improved to OS 9.The rumor was that internal NeXT software was extremely powerful, for working with groups on the network. I would love to see more of this in OS X.
If you're avoiding watching this video because it's so long, or otherwise haven't seen it yet, check out this article, which splits the 35-minute video into 6 logical segments with information about what's in each one. Plus the video is slightly enhanced over what's in the Youtube version. If even these segments are too long, you can download each one as a QuickTime movie. It's definitely worth taking the time to get to know what NeXT was up to in 1992... so far ahead of their time.
Closed AccountOct 17, 2006
Yeah...and WHY didn't corporations buy it? PRICE.
joeydooOct 17, 2006
"tracking - - - - - - * - - - - - "I remember that. It's all flooding back.
streakOct 17, 2006
Boom! Steve is already going Boom! here. Not only that, but Blamo!! ;-)
trailofdeadOct 17, 2006
That Lotus spreadsheet was called Improv and it was revolutionary. Nothing like it even today. So sad...
rasterbatorOct 17, 2006
One of the biggest features in NeXT was display postcript, and the ability to add a drop shadow to any postscript file in any app. Once Steve Jobs came back on board and purchased NeXT, it was only a matter of time before that technology came to be OS X. Dock, Show and Hide, AddressBook, Show Fonts, all behave similarly to this video. And the networking of OS X is much improved to OS 9.The rumor was that internal NeXT software was extremely powerful, for working with groups on the network. I would love to see more of this in OS X.
llscottsOct 20, 2006
If you're avoiding watching this video because it's so long, or otherwise haven't seen it yet, check out this article, which splits the 35-minute video into 6 logical segments with information about what's in each one. Plus the video is slightly enhanced over what's in the Youtube version. If even these segments are too long, you can download each one as a QuickTime movie. It's definitely worth taking the time to get to know what NeXT was up to in 1992... so far ahead of their time.