Steve Jobs Founds NeXT

After being forced out of Apple, Steve Jobs founded NeXT Inc. with a vision to create powerful workstations and a cutting-edge object-oriented operating system, NeXTSTEP.

Significance

This event was foundational, as NeXTSTEP would eventually become the technological bedrock for macOS, years later, after Apple acquired NeXT.

Key facts

Date
1985-09-17
Type
invention
Location
Palo Alto, California