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But the RAM requirements were crazy, 8MB RAM in the late 80s which is understandable for what the machine the was offering.

Interface Builder is nice, I remember trying to develop GUIs on Amiga with intuition.library and wished that there was a drag and drop program to build the source code. Running NeXTSTEP 3.3 on Virtual Box and trying to get it running on my early 2000s laptop :)

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Now imagine being at the university doing the graduation project porting a visualisation framework from NeXTSTEP into Windows (Objective-C => C++), because it was clear NeXT wasn't going to survive, and some stations were already gathering dust, after being replaced with PCs running Red-Hat Linux.

If folks had guess what turnaroud NeXT would go through, most likely my thesis would have been something else.

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