Apple's OS of that era was still single-threaded and an antique next to Windows....

saretired on Dec 20, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: 20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT

Apple's OS of that era was still single-threaded and an antique next to Windows. NeXT gave them a modern OS. Performance was falling further and further behind Intel-based systems. NeXTSTEP ran on Intel, Sparc and PowerPC. And most of all, NeXT gave them Steve Jobs.