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The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012)
NeXTSTEP technologies still fuel Macs, iPhones, and iPads 16 years later.
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 Jobs' second computer company, NeXT, and using its NeXTSTEP operating system as the basis of a new generation of Macs. UNIX at its core was meant to be a powerful operating system for the massive computers of the day, but it could also be easily programmed and controlled by developers using a simple video terminal. By basing OS X—and later, iOS—on UNIX, Macs were finally able to enjoy important operating system features like protected memory, pre-emptive multitasking, and daemon-based services.
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