On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, jwalsh(a)bigpond.net.au wrote:
Jobs takes his payout after being dumped from Apple,
takes the bit he missed from Xerox Smalltalk80 and builds NeXT computers, the ferrari of
Computers.
He brings it back to Apple again put it on a Linux kernel and calles it NextStep.
Together (AIM group Apple, IBM and Motorolla) they build the "G" series.
Microsofts decides to catch up by applying it to his own hardware base i.e. Intel.
It is called the Wintel group.
NeXT was always based on BSD - OSX still is based on BSD, not Linux.
-uso.