NeXT Inc. Founded
After being forced out of Apple, Steve Jobs founded NeXT Inc. to build revolutionary workstations and an advanced operating system, NeXTSTEP.
Significance
This laid the foundational technology (NeXTSTEP, Mach kernel, Display PostScript, Objective-C) that would eventually become macOS.
Key facts
- Date
- 1985-09-26
- Type
- invention
- Location
- Palo Alto, California, USA