Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985 and started a new computer company called NeXT. The operating system became the foundation for Mac OS X.

Most Apple fans have heard Steve Jobs’ introduction of the original 1984 Macintosh. But far fewer are familiar with the initial public demonstrations of the NeXT Computer, the first of two NeXT ...

In 1985, Steve Jobs, a co-founder of Apple Computer Corporation, was forced out of Apple by its CEO, John Scully. Jobs soon decided to form a new company, NeXT. Its goal was to create the next ...