Cool tech demo for something new called “NeXTStep 3.” Could be big. Just kidding, of course. Always interesting to see Steve before his more recent, peak form. A little less suave than you might be used to. Still, NeXTStep 3 was awesome for its era – just barely shy of the first few releases of OS X.
Except that GUI. YEESH. Who on earth thought that all those floating palettes was a good idea?
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6 responses to “Steve Jobs Shows Off NextStep 3, Says “Boom” Just Once”
The most interesting part of Next step 3 that is NOT yet in MacOS X: inter application linking.
I wish Apple and MS cold agree on something great around to revive OLE on MacOS.
“Blamo”
Awesome
It’s still funny too see this clip appear on websites everywhere. It’s been a couple of years since I digitized the NTSC VHS-tape sent to me from a fellow NeXT fan in Australia. The convertion process was pretty ugly: A PAL/NTSC VHS player from Samsung, a recorder card in a PC running Windows XP (didn’t have any OS X hardware around) and then.. *boom*. We put it online on my website next.z80.org and after an hour or so my ADSL line at home was down. I had to stop Apache HTTPD on my web server to be able to pay my bills online!
So I added a few mirrors around Sweden and soon they where down too. After that, I asked all the participants of next.z80.org to help out with mirrors and at it’s peak we hade 20+ mirrors around the world.
Anyway, the short story of that little NeXTSTEP demo. I still have the VHS tape at home in my bookshelf. I’ll probably get around doing a better digital version of it any day now…