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I discovered this on YouTube — a long video of Steve Jobs — with hair and wearing a tie — demonstrating the wonders of NeXSTEP.
I've not had the opportunity to see any NeXT machine and my knowledge of the system stops at the little I've read about it, so in my case the video makes the lineage of OS X as transparent as some of the objects Jobs manipulates on the monitor. The dock is the dock, but Spotlight-like usage is nameless.
The video goes far beyond any flat statements that OS X is based on NeXT. Thankfully, Apple dumped some of the windows' Windows look.
Toward the end, Jobs almost says "One last thing"; he says 'second-last thing." But it may be the first time he tells viewers "It just works." At one point he almost says it, then a little later, he does.
I've not had the opportunity to see any NeXT machine and my knowledge of the system stops at the little I've read about it, so in my case the video makes the lineage of OS X as transparent as some of the objects Jobs manipulates on the monitor. The dock is the dock, but Spotlight-like usage is nameless.
The video goes far beyond any flat statements that OS X is based on NeXT. Thankfully, Apple dumped some of the windows' Windows look.
Toward the end, Jobs almost says "One last thing"; he says 'second-last thing." But it may be the first time he tells viewers "It just works." At one point he almost says it, then a little later, he does.
