Long, fascinating article about Dish on Bloomberg Businessweek

[navychop]

I should clarify: NextStep OS was morphed into a revised version of the Mac OS.

 

[Hall]

OTOH, Jobs' company during that period, NEXT, didn't do so well, either.

Yeap, it only was the forerunner of OS X. Not to mention that Apple bought out NeXT for almost half a billion dollars...

 

[mike123abc]

I had a NeXT cube. Now I wish I had kept it.

 

[GaryPen]

Yeap, it only was the forerunner of OS X. Not to mention that Apple bought out NeXT for almost half a billion dollars...

They bought back Steve Jobs.
And, Next was not very successful unto itself.