www.Alfred.TV READ ME FIRST In this video, with a run time of 53 minutes, I give a cursory overview of the hardware and operating system centric to the NeXT Computer. When Steve Jobs was stripped of all managerial rights at Apple in 1985, he resigned and started NeXT. In the mid 90’s, when Apple was in dire straights for a modern, multitasking operating system, they looked to purchase Be for their BeOS. When that deal fell through, they negotiated with NeXT. With the purchase, which was for about 0 million, not only did they get the NextStep/OpenStep OS, they also got back Steve Jobs. The acquisition of NeXT, which was orchestrated by the current Apple CEO, Gil Amelio, saved the company from pending disaster. So, join me for a some time-travel to 1990, where I will give you a peek at the roots of the modern Mac OS X operating system which many of us enjoy and use today. Make sure to stay through the credits for the post video bonus scene featuring a Power Mac 7500, an Apple ][, and my nephews, Mike and Chris. Note: The REASON why this was filmed early on Thanksgiving more was due to my personal and business schedule. It was the only time I could do it in order to fulfill my promise of ‘booting the NeXT Cube’ prior to 2009. If you’d like to see the raw, archival uStream broadcast, which is a bit light-hearted as I interact with the live audience, please visit the URL below and click on the link for ‘archived videos.’ The broadcast is broken up into multiple parts for …
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25 responses to Tech : NeXT Cube Demo
@lichuan80 and the innovation 20 years ago was based on an operating system that was already 20 years old 20 years ago
UNIX is what, about 41 years old now? Admittedly, todays UNIX is different than the first iteration from 1969, but still – it’s Unix. I love BSD in all of it’s incarnations (PCBSD is what I’m fiddling with at the moment). I just love computers man, all operating systems, all processors – I have fun with it, especially the vintage stuff.
wow… that was one nice machine, can’t wait for any follow up videos you make about it… vintage computing rocks!
The black box looks awesome.
Why were computers of that era all beige? All the way to the mid/late 90s it was all beige. Why?
Yeah I believe these workstations sold for between $9,000 to $13,000.
Wow! It’s slower than my iPod touch!!!
@lichuan80 My aim isn’t to defend Apple in saying this, but saying that the technology is inferior because it’s based on technology from 20 years ago is like calling the human race inferior. I agree, there needs to be more work, especially more researc for exokernels, but google code has been helping a lt of ese projects along. sorry for teh typos but my vbrowser started tweaking out
Fantastic!
Unix !
It is a bit upsetting to see how innovation of 5 people around 20 years ago still steering the acclaimed most advanced OS nowadays, and upon realizing this, think about how IT industry could become if the companies like Microsoft and IBM or Sun could convince their investor to put slight more focus on invocation factors and work more closed with the brightest minds from academic.
@alizta wrong.
your videos is awesome, i love this channel
Everyone says how innovative apple is but they really haven’t moved OS X on that much from NextStep considering it’s been 18 years which in tech terms is a century. Apple stole the GUI from Xerox and OS X from next (even if it was Steve Jobs) NextStep was magnificent considering they had minuscule specs to run the os on. If modern software designers had the same innovation and attention to detail on modern specs the computers would be insane.
Nice video, Al!
I’ve never used an actual NeXT box, but it’s nice to see how smooth it looks in your video. Reminded me a bit of the Amigas back in the day, they also were very smooth given their relatively modest CPU.
Back in those days I’ve also used 486 computers with early versions of linux and FreeBSD, but it wasn’t anywhere near as smooth as this NeXT, despite the CPU probably being more powerful than this 040 at 25 MHz.
This hardware and kernel/OS just look nicely tuned to eachother.
So it can run on a SPARC?
Fantastic.
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wicked review-LOVE NeXT SO MUCH!!!!!!!- BTW you type really really fast!
Great great video! Thanks!
Your video’s are some of the best, man. Keep it up!
Use vitualbox and run openstep on it
next kind of is around today it is at the heart of MAC OS X
I remember having a NeXT cube, and i LOVED IT!!! and yes, i do believe they had CD drives, and definately had floppy drives. lol the screen saver amazed me
does it have any type of optical drive or floppy?
that thing on the desk made the internet dudes i think, i still can’t believe neXt isn’t around today even designed the net from Tim Berners-Lee….. jesus doesn’t Times changed alot
FCK! The only thing missing is U!
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