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  • did they say... app?

  • 3:45... so easy, even an executive can use it, LOL!

  • Amazing, he makes out of date tech sound good

  • It is weird to hear Steve Jobs talking negatively about macs.

  • it dosent look as deasant as anything like arch, ubuntu, or mint but I WANT IT!

  • what makes this video really cool is that it appears to be totally unscripted

  • Linux programmers, please build a Linux version like this, call it Next Linux. 块块

  • @ImagineHuZhou It's called GNUstep.

  • @ImagineHuZhou Got it.... I'll take it into consideration.

  • Steve is such a stud at presentations, he's made me want to go out and buy a Next machine tonight!!

  • I bet you anything Steve is busy bringing heaven into the digital world...

    Networking heaven and hell and showing them that they have so much more in common that they ever thought they did...

    God is probably really pissed 'cause this new upstart is eroding his absolute top don control of the universe...

    Go for it Steve, kick some god-ass!

  • as a matter of fact this look pretty up to date by today's standards!

    damn genius! :-)

  • holy shit this blows all the other computers from 1992 out of the water!

    including mac but especially pc's that were (and syill are) slower than turtles!

  • @moronsarefunny Sun Microsystems Sparcstation pizzaboxes were even faster... and! they could run NextStep for Sparc!

  • @moronsarefunny pcs arent slower than turtles, but unix is!

  • @snipe2531 Often, UNIX is much more resource-efficient then Windows is, and is much faster. Ever wonder why large corporations use UNIX for the operating system on their servers? It's not just for security... In addition, Mac OS X is UNIX based, and you'll find that operating system on some of the highest-end computers available. Heck, I even ran OS 10.5 on a 667mhz Powerbook with 512mb of RAM and it ran great.

  • OS-X doesn't seem to have inherited FreeBSD's security for some reason!

  • I also found this video reading Isaacson's biography on my iPad. Then again I wondered whether the NeXT is even better than my Mac.

  • 19:50 Why didn't Mac OS X inherit the "Paste Linked" feature? That feature is so bad ass.

  • I am reading Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve and I am on the NeXT chapter. That's why I found this video. It's truly mesmerizing to supplement the reading with these videos.

    I love it when he's talking about DOS and says, "slash f, it's a wonderful interface..." I laughed so hard.It's such a reflection of the current state of affairs with Microsoft and IBM. Hilarious.

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  • How can this be 1992?

  • hey look, that dock looks like windows 7

  • Uh, did Steve just use the word 'App', over and over, like, 20 years before anyone else was using it? Do the lawyers know about this clip??

  • 30:59 Demonstrating DOS running in a window on NEXT, "I've learnt just enough DOS, to demo this to you. It's quite intuitive. d,i,r.... There you go... I may be able to bring up a file here. Slash.... F...., it's a wonderful user interace, R... 1,2,3. There we go. So here's an example of a 123 worksheet running inside a PC window, right alongside your good applications here." Genius :-) Then watch him demo some 3D graphic processing on NeXTSTEP. Awesome.

  • @acmeofentity all the more awesome if you take "built on top of UNIX" into account

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  • i am sure the reason why he is not with us any longer is because God needs somebody to take the heavens from the dark ages of whatever technology they use up there. God bless him.

  • Awesome ! Nearly a today's computer 15 years ago . Fortunately many of this features had been transferred to the Mac Os.

  • YEARS before its time. Unbelievable. Beautiful. I cried.

    This is Mac OS X , 15 years ago.

    Steve Jobs is a visionary to end visionaries.

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  • Good video.

    Jose Francisco Medeiros

    San Jose, California

  • This was great stuff. If it wasn't so damn expensive it would have taken over.

  • "So here's an example of a 123 worksheet running inside a PC window, right alongside your GOOD applications"

  • My point exactly , IBM allowed IBM clones to be created ( As in IBM compatible PCs ) there were willing to share , thus making sure that everyone is included in there success ( i.e Intel , Microsoft and heaps of small vendors ) making components for PCs, IBM mentality was always inclusive will Apple is always exclusive

  • the reason android is succeeding now is they are willing to share , ( there are heaps of vendors which make phones and tablets using Android OS) how many are using IOS , except , Apple . This is one company which will never learn from history , they are forever condemned to come out with great products only to be beaten those how are willing to share.

  • I love the little snipes at apple, 'putting Cynthia from marketing on the shelf', 'it takes a while because the mac's a little slow to give it up'. Haha.

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  • Why NextStep failed , was not because of technology ( it was much superior ) to OS Apple or Win95, It failed because Steve Jobs decided to keep it all to him self , he was not one for sharing

  • @aamir122a Another problem was unfortunate timing. When Win 95 launched, the 'PC' war was basically won.

  • the problem with this was the price at the time ...

  • It's kind of tragic that most computer users had to put up with garbage like Windows 95 and 98 for most of the '90s when amazing operating systems like this existed.

  • the dock!

  • @gdaaps Back then business people scoffed at the Macintosh and at other graphic OS (Amiga, Atari ST). It was not seen as businesslike to use a GIMP operating system. The early editions of Windows were seen as gimmicks, usable for some business tasks but not for daily usage. Of course that was until Microsoft came along and introduced the "revolutionary" Windows 95. :P

  • @dalbolega Back in 2006 you could apply for a Director account which enabled you to upload longer clips. I still have a seperate grandfathered Director account but now longtime users get the same upload facilities so it's not so unique anymore.

  • Dang, why didn't I have this when I was struggling with Windows?

  • Steve is outlining multitasking on NeXTSTEP over 20 years ago but it still doesn't work that great on iOS. Interesting! It seems to me Apple have just been working on the UI for the past 20 years instead of real innovation in computing. Other companies too... People were watching pictures while listening to music 20 years ago on their computers. We've all been played while rushing to buy the latest iPhone and Mac every year...

  • Funny that he watches his hands while he types!

  • Boom!

  • he was talking crap on mac lol

  • Well all I've to say is that I've meet simpler things years later and found them fantastic.

    this OS was really ahead of its time.

  • poor steve :(

  • What year was this?

  • @laduran that was 91 @@

    so when there was a 5 months delay and when they asked him about the delay he replied that it was 5 years ahead of its time he really meant it !!!!

  • @busloo7 YEah. If anything he was a little conservative. Five years later we were dealing with bluescreens from Windows 95 or dealing with the little "bombs" in System 7.5. I used to use a NeXTStep PC at my university and it was just rock solid... It didn't run very much software but the titles available were first class. Mathematica was amazing.

  • I didn't know that at that time there was such a good operating system and I was playing with... the MS-DOS!!!

  • Okay, he said boom! Is this where it all started? haha

  • @34:43 No, thank you.

  • Notice that this video was uploaded in early 2006 (YouTube was very young by this time and most users were not able to upload longer videos than 9, maybe 10 Minutes) nevertheless, the video runs for over a half hour (i.e. 35 minutes)!

    I remember watching this around mid 2007 for the first time and it was pretty cool back then.. Even if the original was produced in 1991, still amazing!

  • R.I.P. Steve Jobs 1955-2011

  • "the eps is really coming up from the Mac, this is why it takes a second, because the mac is a little slow to give it up :-)))"

  • Genius!

  • And this was only version 3 (it went to 4.3)! How little desktop OSs and apps have improved since 1991! This UI functionally is as good as anyhing available today. Positioning images just so in MS Word can be painful. Is there an SQL database app toolkit with Mac OS X? Beyond eye candy, are the UIs of Mac OS X Lion or Word so *obviously* 20 years ahead of what's here? In a human generation we can't do better than the Amiga dock? Sad, since the dock is (still) not the best UI aspect of Mac OS X.

  • @santhema What Amiga dock? The third party one that eventually got bundled shortly after OSX was announced?

  • @doritostheking Well, Apple may have included a third party version of the dock with Mac OS X that was marginally better, or at least better-looking, than the NeXTSTEP dock (which looks more like the horrific Ubuntu Unity dock than today's Mac OS X dock), but the *concept* of the dock AFAIK was first popularized by the Amiga (if "popularized" can even be said about the Amiga thanks to tragically terrible marketing).

  • @santhema Ahahahaha NO. NeXTSTEP had the dock before the Amiga did. That is what I am saying.

  • @doritostheking I stand corrected, but you're missing the point I was making. Who cares which OS had the dock first before 1991 besides knowing whom to curse anyway (my apologies to Commodore)? My point is that after 20 years, we don't have any desktop OS which is fundamentally better than NeXTSTEP was, which I found both interesting and disappointing. The dock was just an example of something that has not progressed.

  • RIP Steve Jobs. True Visionary.

  • Wow I didn't realize we'd come to far. Jobs says: "Notice when you move the window, the entire contents of the window come with me" Hahaa

  • The GUI is such a RIP OFF OF AMIGA OS !!!

    Especially "the dock"

  • @justincgs 'Sup Thierry, you not taking your meds again? Docks were first featured in Acorn Arthur OS and NeXTSTEP, as were context menus. In fact a couple of the more well known Amiga docks specifically mention NeXTSTEP as their muse.

  • R.I.P Steve Jobs

  • I worked with NeXTStep at my University in 1993 while I had Windows 3.1 at home. Oh how it sucked to work at home.

    I actually reprogrammed the NeXTStep Finder on Windows with the Microsoft Compiler to have the same neat interconnected boxes. But of course the knobs on the windows scrollbars were not proportional to the amount of displayed text, wo it really did not look the same.

  • DEP S.Jobs.

  • Steve Jobs was an absolute and pure genius! Such a shame he had to go so early :(

  • Long live NeXTStep and long live Steve Jobs! They will live forever in the heart of OS X, Apple, and Apple fans.

  • vá com Deus...

  • RIP :(

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  • That's impressive! I had heard the NeXT was ahead of its time, but wow--it handled graphics, networking, and general computational loads in a way--and at speeds--similar to what we're used to today. And this was almost 20 years ago? Some of it seems unbelievably outdated today (1-2-3 for instance), but a lot of what he's showing that we take for granted now (seamless networking, universal drag-and-drop, etc.) was almost unheard-of at the time.

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  • i don't think anyone here realizes that this operating system came out YEARS before windows 95 was released! i think 5 years? check out wikipedia!

  • This guy presents ideas very well - he should go far.

  • First time that Steve presents programming

  • "So this is an example of a 123 worksheet running in a PC window, right alongside your good applications here..."

  • Where can I buy this?

  • So easy to use it... executives can use it... lol.

  • First, Steve created a computer better than IBM at Apple. Then, Apple fired him. Then Steve created a computer better than Apple....Im glad all this went back to Mac OS

  • when did he do this video?

  • @fjdkfdfjdf33 1992

  • 当時一度だけNEXTに触れ、そのハードウェア(本体、ディスプ­レー、キーボード、マウス他)と NextStepOSに感嘆した記憶がある。 まだキャノンがサポート?していた頃で、たまに中古もあったがけ­っこう高かったと思う。 BeOSとNextStepのどちらかが次期MacOSになると­言われる前だ。 今見ても、当時のMacOSとは違う更に先進的なOSだったなー ちょっとIrixにも似ている感じがするが、同じくUNIXベー­スという事もあって どっちが先と言う事も無いだろう。 むしろNextStepのパーソナルPCとしての操作性がとても­先進的だ。 Irixは後のONIXで使ったが、あれはやはりPCの皮を被っ­たUNIXだ。 ある部分以上になるととても煩わしい。 このVIDEOを見て、またNEXT CUBEの実物を見てみたくなった。 カバーを開けた姿も、Macintosh以上にデザインが凝って­いたはずだ。 いずれにしても、Steveのネクタイ姿には笑える。若かったね­~
  • Wow Steve job was young he got so rich apple hire him back

  • This looks like every popular operating system merged together and on steroids.

  • @banj0smah0mie -

    i.e. every other popular operating system copied its key features and made them commercially popular

  • podrá ser viejo, pero Jobs aun logra convencerme, seria capaz de comprarme un computador con NextStep jejejeje, para nuestros días me atrevo a decir que sigue siendo un SO cautivador

  • how many people are watching this and using nextstep at the same time?

  • @miviezgeneration a lot, considering Mac OSX is based off of NeXTSTEP core. :)

  • It's amazing just how powerful computing really was, even back in the early 90s. OS like NeXTstep, BeOS and Amiga were all far ahead of their time, certainly compared to Mac OS and Windows. It's interesting to think how even Mac OS X Lion lacks some features that NeXTstep had...

  • What year is this from?

  • @LarryV15 1992

  • Using GnuStep right now.

  • lol he was "app" way back then

  • Blamo!

  • @pokerholic77 all of that is now in Os X and the mac.  of course, a lot improved after so many years of work.

  • guardate Steve Jobs!queste immagini sono l'anello Mancante tra le immagini di Steve Jobs del 1984 e Steve Jobs del 1998

  • look at Steve Jobs! these pictures are the missing link between the images of the 1984 Steve Jobs and Steve Jobs in 1998

  • "Out of these thirteen hundred articles, how many of them have to do with bush?" Well, his interest there explains why he had a kid (as shown at the beginning of the video). lol

  • I just realised how crap Microsoft Word is.

    Even the 2010 version is tragic when it comes to text wrapping on pictures, yet WordPerfect all the way back in 1992 could do it seemlessly.

  • @crocodile2006

    Urgh, I hate how "Word" deletes words when you try to add a word between words.

  • @Sismiques you best be trolling...

  • @bedardenator

    Explain.

  • its interesting to see how even in 1992 that OS is still more advanced than todays MS Windows

    I mean to treat controls as Objects and directly link them so easy...

    heck the rotating 3D image and direct alpha blending

    shit even XP doesn't have that in their graphical programs provided

    and seeing how Breadcrumbs were used so early, and stiffed in Longhorn/Vista as some "innovation"

    its kinda sad how much time it takes to pass for some things to actualy come to life

  • old is gold

    i realy like this old video kiss

  • "Here's a 123 document inside a pc window, running alongside your good apps." XD Classic

  • Alas, it's human nature to pick what's not the best.

  • WHY DID THIS NEVER BECOME FAMOUS?? (Other than the fact it's the base of OSX)

  • @EpikEthan because Apple re hired Jobs and bought out NeXT

  • @mohanpram Ah.. Does it use the same source code?

  • @EpikEthan from what I know, some what.

  • I love how steve tell the word BETTER

    aha! dock!

  • ah, the grandfather of mac os x.

  • 10:44

    i want to say that when i get home!

  • I was fortunate to be able to use the Next for several years at WilTel's ATG. For me, it is STILL my favorite OS of all of the OS's that I have ever used.

    It is a testament to genius and astonishing levels. Sad, that Job's didn't have Bill Gates' ability to get NextSTEP onto the same number of machines that Microsoft did.

    This is the most striking example of the horrible products (Microslop) beating out the vastly superior product. In other words the best does not always come out on top!

  • Steve jobs sheer liberal ideals disgust me, but the man's a genius...

    Apple and MS definitely held back the puter world for many years.

  • Next was the only true OS that was years ahead of its time.

  • @MikePianoMan Do not forget Irix 3 .

  • @SMRobot I agree. What a great line--"Well run 123 right next to a good app." LOL

  • Steve Jobs is bad-ass! Look how familiar he was with using the early version of Interface Builder. Building a database program, etc. How many CEO's nowadays can do that with their product? Man--it's gonna be sad if he passes away in the next few weeks.

  • He was even calling software "apps" since way back then. Now all of a sudden since the App store, EVERYONE else calls their stuff "apps," when before just a few years ago people were used to calling them "programs"

  • He even ci

  • Lol, Steve Jobs burning macs.

  • 10000000000000000 times better than Windows 95, 98

  • Great environment to create new apps, I think better than visual basic 98 and bellow

  • @hacker9403

    As a developer that used and created some very sophisticated apps on the NeXT platform the complete Object Oriented System Environment was more sophisticated than the current stuff available in Windows today.

  • @psyjunta After he left apple he created the company NeXTSTEP, made these computers / Os until they were so good that apple bought his idea and asked for him back for 500million.

  • wow SJ saying something bad about Apple Computers! lol

  • The NeXT computer was presented in 1988, not in 1992.

  • When was that?

  • very amazing!! on 80's techs.

  • parece ke me están explicando Mac OS X

  • WOW, this is faster than my vista laptop :P

    I bought it in 2006.. WTF!!

  • @tijs14tijs Just look at how many low level processes your windows systems runs at any given time - when it does nothing. :-) 200? 500?

  • The speed of this tasks blew my mind. Running all this on 14MHz. Just think about that: genius software programmers like him being stranded on a deserted island with nothing but a Computer with a Core i7 and a bunch of developer tools. They would have no pressure from shareholders and stuff and could just work and use the computer's full potential. The OS they would come up with would be ten years ahead from the "normal world".

  • @uhohoverflow It seems that you never worked on an AMIGA 2000 or later. With a 7MHz 68000 cpu, 2MB of RAM and a 40MB hard drive it was no problem to do real preemptive multi tasking. That days I ran a BBS with two lines in the background without even noticing it. The AMIGA system developers were programming gods. With every update the OS used less RAM and processor power. The shared library system, file system, assigning of device paths and so much more was way ahead of its time.

  • @psyjunta he started NeXT, after leaving Apple, but went back to Apple after it failed .... most of what was in NeXT Step ended up in OSX

  • Why is Steve Jobs using Windows 7?

  • Wow, the only time you'll ever hear Steve Jobs talk out against Mac.

  • @TommyBNSF Of course, he was competing with them. Also, he had a far better operating system that was much better than what was available than what Macs or PC's were running at the time. What you see there is what he brought with him when he came back to Apple. MacOS was a piece of shit so one of the first orders of business was to get rid of that and replace it with this. Smart move on his part.

  • @TommyBNSF: Well, remember, at that time it was the company he had gotten fired from ;-)

  • That was a very good demo by Steve, He should be a teacher. NextSTEP was really advanced for it's time.

  • NextStep did make the database connectivity very easy.

    Can we have this type of easy access and implementation of database in Macs or PC these days? the answer to that is a big "NO".

    All developers here know what i mean. It takes tons of code to write a database connected application (with those images as well) in both platforms Macs or PC, using database application like Oracle. Look what NextStep did in early 90's. Steve Jobs can you prefer functionality and neat GUI over eye candy again?

  • That's computing *power*, some 13 years ahead of everybody else. Thank God Apple picked NeXT Computer and not Be, Inc, though BeS was pretty cool too, and years and years ahead of anything Microsoft, and by all means Apple, had at that time.

  • OSX  IS NeXT.

    The NSObject classes when coding for mac, are NeXTStep

  • Frame ask how i want to treat line endings...and i don't really care.

    ah good ol steve

  • Actually, look at me 20 years ago and see the difference between now and then... I think it's the same difference between Steve Jobs 20 years ago and now!!... lol

  • Interesting how times change!!

  • "You can drop any text you've every written into it... your policy manuals or your LOVE LETTERS!!!!????" <--- That was hilarious saying it with a straight face.

  • much much much ... or should i say boom ...

  • hey guys want to see the "next Step" of nextSTEP?

    search for "ubuntu unity" :)

    of course they look similar, but unity was made for widescreen and netbooks so is more justified, but the coincidence is incredible lol

  • incredible, so far ahead of its time! its great to see how this influenced OSX

  • We had this at University of Fairbanks Alaska, back in early 90's. blew my mind away, it was so far advanced for its day. From what Ive read, Jobs after going back to Apple used this system as the basis for thier modern OS's. Also it is the basis for Windows NT. Pretty wild that this is little known but we all are using a OS that has roots in NeXT.

  • OS X was based off this. it was almost based off of sun solaris but in the end they based it off of next which was it self based off of bsd.

  • @MrGizmo757 It's not that simple, NextSTEP was not a based on BSD. The kernel however had/has some BSD roots. The O/S was written from scratch by NeXt.

    There are many myths about Mac OS, but the BSD origin is the most common. It is also not true.

    You should look at the "Inside the Mac OS X Kernel" video from Chaos Computer Club. It's very complicated.

  • @abkalmo

    This is simply not true. NeXTSTEP was based on MACH, written down the street form me at CMU. MACH itself was a microkernal OS based on BSD architecture.

    While NeXTSTEP was developed in-house, it was done so by building on MACH, not by starting from scratch.

  • @ManifoldSky I don't actually disagree with you, I wanted to make it clear(er) that Mac OS X was not just built upon a product from NeXT that was simply a copy of BSD.

    The BSD roots of the MACH-kernel are well known, but it's not exactly identical or a copy [certainly not in OS X]. Many people believe the BSD-part means NeXT/Mac OS are simply copies of another O/S.

    I didn't mean to imply that NeXT did it all from scratch, but it didn't copy FreeBSD, it built upon MACH, which became OS X.

  • works even faster than some windows machines xd

  • this is the first time i heard Steve Jobs say "better than a mac"

  • To be completely honest, NeXTSTEP is superior to many current OSes. All that networking stuff built in and just ... working.

    I try to link to another computer over the network and despite being an administrator, it's all password this and domain that. It's a nightmare.

    And for a 25MHz '030 to run that quickly... Wow! I used 33MHz '040 Apples that were not as nippy.

    From what I have seen of the Xerox ALTO, the NeXT Station grew and surpassed that technology by many magnitudes.

    Fantastic.

  • @MatchstalkMan Thankfully all this networking power was brought to OS X. It's simple as hell getting two Macs talking, even Windows, although not quite as straight forward thanks to their insistence