NeXT was never about UNIX, the compatibility that it had was just to ease the porting into the platform, not to get away from it.
The Objective-C APIs were what mattered.
Likewise when it was reborn as OS X.
I attended an Apple session at CERN during the early OS X days, with the same idea being transmitted.
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NeXT was never about UNIX, the compatibility that it had was just to ease the porting into the platform, not to get away from it.
The Objective-C APIs were what mattered.
Likewise when it was reborn as OS X.
I attended an Apple session at CERN during the early OS X days, with the same idea being transmitted.