Back in 1997, there was exciting news coming out of Cupertino. Apple had spurned Be and acquired Steve Jobs … er… NeXT and announced its grand new OS strategy. We all know how the story ends, but it’s fun to remember how the story began. The first article is a real blast from the past, since it talks about Apple’s Network Computer strategy. The second article is a non-programmer’s journey into Objective C prgramming with the NeXT tools, then called the Yelow Box, now called Cocoa. Enjoy!
Whenever I read articles like this, it always reminds me of the Microsoft OS that never was, Cairo, which was supposed to be Windows but with a proper OO desktop, ala OS/2 (Which by the way is probably my fave os of all time, I was one of the millions who bought OS/2 Warp, an amazing OS even by todays standards, I still remember amazing friends by running multiple simultaneous DOS games at once in different windows!)