What is another computer?
Next Computer Inc. He was a manufacturer of computer hardware and software created by Apple® co -founder Steve Jobs in 1985. His first product was also officially known as another computer and described many of them as "Cube". He then fought on the hardware market for several years before transferring his operating system based on Unix to other platforms and focused exclusively on software. Apple® bought in 1996 and many other technologies got into the new generation of Apple® products. The first product of the company was another computer system, elegant black cube -shaped cube made of magnesium, which was focused on the markets of higher education. It was charged as a "3M computer", unofficial specifications for computer workstations with at least megabyte memory, a million or more pixels display, and a processor capable of at least a million calculations per second. The first other workstations did not fully meet all the criteria, but were basically stronger than personal computers, CThey make them attractive to some academic and government customers.
When it was released in 1989, another computer also had a number of features that distinguish it from other era computers. It has been designed to maximize data transfer speeds between different components and have three Motorola microprocessors - 25 Megahertz Central Processing Units (CPU), a unit with a movable point (FPU) for mathematical calculations, and a digital signal processor (DSP) capable of producing compact disk sound (CD). Included operating system, NextStep, was based on UNIX® and represented a graphical user interface with full multitasking, which means that more programs could run at once. Standard configurations do not include any hard drive, instead rely on a unique magnetoptic drive that used both lasers and magnets. The object -oriented programming environment and the new graphic TeCHNology called Display PostScript created on the screen seems to be much closer to what they would look like when they were printed.
By 1993, he released another number of other models, including another cube and other stations, but faced slow sales due to the relatively high cost of his hardware. The company has reduced its focus on computer hardware in favor of focusing on the NextStep operating system. NextStep was modified to run on various computer architectures, and eventually developed into an open OpenStep source.
eventually failed as a commercial entity in itself, but technology and key staff from the company contributed to the revival of Apple®, which bought further for more than $ 400 million in 1996. Webobjects®, web application North and Environment developed on Next, afterShe was in powering the extremely successful iTunes® music store. The acquisition also brought Jobs back to Apple®, where he quickly became CEO and launched a number of successful products.