The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X

Ars Technica
By Chris ForesmanDec 19, 2012, 2:00 pm524 pts
Aurich Lawson In the 1990s, Apple struggled to bring the original Mac OS—originally written in 1984 for the resource-constrained Macintosh 128K machine—up to modern operating system standards. The story of how OS X came to be is thrilling in its own right, but suffice it to say that Apple ended up buying Steve…

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