NeXT Station | When Steve Jobs left Apple - Part 2

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● Description
We continue our look at the NeXT Station by exploring the software, development and the legacy left by NeXT.

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● Music
Aurora Currents - Asher Fulero
Some Other Place - South London HiFi
Giant - The Grand Affair
Not The Same - Text Me Records / Jorge Hernandez

[fluffycritter]

I always loved NeXTstep, and it turning into OSX was a big part of why I switched to Mac in 2001 (from Linux). So many of the windowing features in NeXTstep are things I wish we still had in macOS - like having the recycle bin pinned in the corner (which used to be available as a hidden preference but they removed it some time ago), and the tearable menus are friggin' useful, even though they seem kinda, well, tearable.

[wolvenar]

I always drooled at the ads for Next systems. Was a dream to have owned one back then. I'm at this point grateful to have such a good video showing what all I actually was missing :-)

[MarkyShaw]

Wow! I definitely learned a lot from this video. It was great to see the developer kit in action. They put such a huge emphasis on giving better tools to developers, although the machine wasn't widely adopted in the hands of regular users, it's certainly obvious that its innovation is what has given us what we have today. Coming from a background where the only thing I've ever known about NeXT was using Window Maker for Linux back in the 90s while reading the documentation and seeing mentions of OpenStep. It was always a mystery to me what NeXT was until the name started to resurface in YouTube videos and Steve Jobs documentaries. This video helped to glue the remaining pieces of the puzzle for me. Thanks so much RMC!

[zh]

20:30 Though this would have taken you a long way afield, the reason Apple needed a new OS so badly at that time was because they had made such an appalling mess of their own development, Copland. They hired an executive from National Semiconductor to sort the project out: she had a good hard look at it, decided it was beyond saving, and had them buy in a solution instead.

[GordonjSmith]

Excellent video. I was at HP and IBM as the NEXT story took place, and your telling of the story is very much as I recall.

[BaudBand]

I love how much research and effort you're putting in with this series. Excellent job, looking forward to part 3.

[little_fluffy_clouds]

7:40 email may have been common back then, but it was mostly plain text. The ability to send formatted rich text in different colours and fonts with inline media attachments such as photos and sound clips was very uncommon and essentially pioneered by NeXT.

[Atomic_Haggis]

I absolutely love your videos, Neil. The Mac family heritage is surprising, and Steve taking the risk of dumping the old System/Mac OS releases can't be understated. It was one of the most influential decisions ever made by a company. Thanks for taking the time to make this for us avid followers. As soon as I can afford it, I'll be subscribing to your Patreon.

[MegaManNeo]

I love seeing videos like these that show us the origins of today's technology.
Thanks alot for making these two parts about the NExT system.

[MrSEA-okll]

Steve's destiny was quite amazing really...he literally gets punted for several years from Apple Computers. Years later he picks up Pixar, for a great price, and ends up being one of the largest single share holders of Disney stock and starts Next computers that became the future and "life force" of Apple, which was dying a slow death. I should have tried to grab a Next cube in early 2000s on eBay, but even then, there were few to purchase. However, a working Lisa went for literally $350 US among other things. Nevertheless, Next was such an amazingly small company that ended up dramatically altering the world of computing...also Doom was first created and run on it? I would have never guessed it was first created and developed on a Next and literally ported to DOS for mass market sales...great video.

[Thiesi]

What a great video series about a long forgotten platform. Really looking forward to the 486 comparison now!

[TheDarkHour]

I don't understand why you don't 1 million subs at this quality!

[janquieldapper]

Watching a lot of your videos... loving my Thursday video library!!! Thanks for this special videos!

[kolamik]

Great detailed knowledge of the Next and it’s legacy. It always amazes me how many meaningful technologies Jobs have been involved in.

[chrismac]

This is quality. Keep up the great work!

[NeilGrevitt]

Great video! NextStep completely passed me by. It was all Windows and VAX/VMS at college in 1992!

[TT-qgxz]

Excellent overview, very well done thanks

[brianboni]

Watching the demo brought back a lot of memories. That was a super simple example but it should be noted that not only were almost all of the system functions available but as soon as you added applications their functions also became available too. If you had say Mathematica and Adobe Illustrator and the external database connection tools loaded you could pull live data process it with Mathematica and display it in a complex Illustrator drawing with not much more trouble than the example in the video.

[jkdsteve]

Never had a chance to play with a NEXT but right in the door with Mac OSX Rhapsody, good times. Thanks for the 2-parter., , , lathe machines doing great things in hardware and with great software integration..so far ahead of it's time, still sad the WINTEL boxes took over...and still miss Steve Jobs,

[mikethemaniacal]

8:45 I've seen hypertext on the web throughout my whole life, but dang, hypertext actually looks nice and coherent, like it belongs there. idk, i see why it was such a thing at the time.