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NeXTstation Dead

NeXTstation
KindMachine
Introduced1990
Discontinued1993
StatusDead
ManufacturerNeXT
ClassWorkstation
PlatformMotorola 68040
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

The affordable NeXT — $4,995 for the slab that ran NeXTSTEP. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first web browser on a NeXT cube; Doom and the AppKit were born here too.

Created by NeXT
Hosted NeXTSTEP

The NeXTstation (September 1990) shrank the cube to a $4,995 slab — 68040 at 25 MHz, NeXTSTEP's Display PostScript desktop, Objective-C, Interface Builder. It sold maybe 50,000 units total across the line.

The software was a decade ahead: Berners-Lee built the web on a NeXT cube at CERN, id wrote Doom and Quake on NeXTSTEP, and its frameworks became macOS/iOS after Apple's 1997 acquisition.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTstation