Sun and NeXT throw open the doors to industry-standard object-oriented computing from the February 1994 issue of NeXTWorld magazine by Lee Sherman NEXTSTEP running on millions of desktops with scalable performance that makes it the environment of choice for everything from low-end workstations to high-performance servers. It once seemed impossible. But the stunning announcement in November that found longtime competitors NeXT and Sun agreeing to combine forces in an attempt to push NEXTSTEP as the standard operating and development environment for object-oriented client-server systems has dramatically increased NEXTSTEP’S chances of becoming entrenched in the enterprise, long before Taligent or Microsoft can even field a product.

from the October 1994 issue of Byte magazine by PETER H. SALUS New Jersey, in the muggy summer of 1969, was the birthplace of Unix. It was born out of the frustration that resulted when AT&T’s BTL (Bell Telephone Labs) withdrew from the Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) project, a joint attempt by BTL, General Electric, and MIT to create an operating system for a large computer accommodating up to a thousand simultaneous users.