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Steve Jobs sanagwirepo ntchito ku Apple, yomwe adayambitsa nawo, kuyambira pachiyambi mpaka lero. Koma kodi iye anachita chiyani pakati pake?

Steve Jobs, pamodzi ndi Steve Wozniak ndi Ronald Wayne, anayambitsa kampaniyo pa April 1, 1976. Panthawiyo, inkatchedwa Apple Computer, Inc. Pambuyo pazaka zingapo zopambana, mu 1983 Steve Jobs adanyengerera yemwe anali CEO wa PepsiCo - John Sculley kuti agwirizane ndi mawu osaiwalika: "Kodi mukufuna kupitiriza kugulitsa madzi abwino kwa moyo wanu wonse, kapena mukufuna kubwera nane ndikusintha dziko?"

Sculley adasiya ntchito yabwino ku PepsiCo kukhala CEO wa Apple. Ubale woyamba wa Jobs & Sculley duo unkawoneka wosagwedezeka. Atolankhani adawakonda ndipo adakhala ngati zolankhula zamakampani apakompyuta. Mu 1984, Jobs adayambitsa kompyuta yoyamba ya Macintosh. Koma malonda sali odabwitsa. Sculley amayesa kukonzanso Apple. Amatsitsa Jobs pamalo pomwe alibe mphamvu pakuyendetsa kampani. Mikangano yayikulu yoyamba imachitika, m'malo awa Wozniak amasiya Apple.

Ntchito zimachititsa chidwi ndikuyesera kuchotsa Sculley. Amamutumiza paulendo wopita ku China komwe adapanga. Koma Sculley akudziwa za izi. Ntchito zatsekedwa bwino, kusiya ntchito ndikusiya Apple ndi antchito ochepa. Amagulitsa magawo onse ndikusunga imodzi yokha. Posakhalitsa, adapeza kampani ya truc NeXT Computer. Kagulu kakang'ono ka mainjiniya adapanga kompyuta yokhazikika ya NeXT yokhala ndi purosesa ya Motorola 68040, chosindikizira, makina opangira opaleshoni, ndi zida zachitukuko. Mu 1989, mtundu woyamba womaliza wa NEXTSTEP udawona kuwala kwa tsiku.

Kompyuta yakuda ndi zaka zingapo patsogolo pa mpikisano. Akatswiri ali okondwa ndi zatsopano za Jobs. Makasitomala ali osamala kwambiri, makompyuta sakugulitsa bwino. Mtengo wake ndiwokwera kwambiri. Fakitale yokha yatsekedwa, makompyuta 50 okha anapangidwa. Mu 000, NeXT Computer, Inc. Mbiri yakale ya NEXT Software, Inc. Makina opangira a NEXTSTEP amatumizidwa ku ma processor a Intel, PA-RISC ndi SPARC kuti azitha kunyamula mosavuta. NEXTSTEP idayenera kukhala dongosolo la 1993s. Koma sanakwanitse cholinga chimenechi.

NEXTSTEP idachokera ku BSD Unix source code yaku University of California ku Berkeley. Ndi Unix yokhazikika pa chinthu, poyerekeza ndi mpikisano wa Mac OS ndi Windows, ndiyokhazikika ndipo ili ndi chithandizo chabwino kwambiri pazida zama network. Onetsani PostScript Level 2 ndikukhazikitsa ukadaulo wa True Colour amagwiritsidwa ntchito powonetsa ndi kusindikiza zikalata. Multimedia ndi nkhani ndithu. Imelo ya NeXTmail imathandizira osati mafayilo a Rich Text Format (RTF) okha komanso mawu ndi zithunzi.

Msakatuli woyamba wa intaneti WorldWideWeb adapangidwanso papulatifomu ya NEXTSTEP. John Caramack adapanga masewera ake awiri otchuka pa NEXTcube: Doom ndi Wolfenstein 3D. Ngale ndikuti mu 1993 NEXTSTEP idathandizira zilankhulo zisanu ndi chimodzi - kuphatikiza Czech.

Mtundu womaliza wokhazikika wa makinawo unalembedwa 3.3 ndipo unatulutsidwa mu February 1995.

Pakadali pano, mavuto akubwera ku Apple kuchokera kumbali zonse. Malonda apakompyuta akugwa, kusintha kwakukulu kwa makina ogwiritsira ntchito kumayimitsidwa nthawi zonse. Steve Jobs adalembedwa ntchito mu 1996 ngati mlangizi wakunja. Iyenera kuthandizira pakusankha makina opangira okonzeka kale. Chodabwitsa kwambiri, pa Disembala 20, 1996, Apple idagula NeXT Software, Inc. $429 miliyoni. Ntchito zimakhala CEO "wanthawi yochepa" ndi malipiro a $ 1 pachaka.

The NEXT dongosolo motero anayala maziko a chitukuko Mac OS opaleshoni dongosolo. Ngati simukundikhulupirira, penyani kanema wozama pansipa momwe Steve Jobs wachichepere, wopanda yunifolomu yake yamakono, akuyambitsa makina opangira a NEXT. Zinthu zomwe tikudziwa kuchokera mu mtundu waposachedwa wa Mac OS zimadziwika pa sitepe iliyonse.

Kaya ndi doko lowonetsedwa kapena mndandanda wa mapulogalamu amtundu uliwonse, kusuntha mazenera kuphatikiza kuwonetsa zomwe zili, ndi zina zambiri. Pali kungofanana apa, osati kwenikweni kakang'ono. Kanemayo akuwonetsanso momwe NeXT inali yosasinthika, makamaka chifukwa chopanga makina opangira ma Mac OS, omwe amayamikiridwa kwambiri ndi mafani a Apple ndi ogwiritsa ntchito.

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