Existing comment:
NeXT Workstation, 1992:
Initial sales of the Macintosh were disappointing, and disagreements arose between Jobs and other Apple executives. He and five coworkers left Apple in 1985 to start a new firm that built the NeXT, a powerful workstation with graphical capabilities like those of the Macintosh. It went on sale in 1989. Jobs and several co-inventors took out patents for the graphical interface of the NeXT. Apple acquired these patents in 1996, when Jobs returned there. |