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188 relations: ABC News (United States), Addison-Wesley, Adobe FreeHand, Adobe Inc., AIM alliance, Amiga, Ansel Adams, API, Apple Inc., Apple Lisa, Apple Mail, Apple University Consortium, Avie Tevanian, Bank One Corporation, BBC, Board of directors, Brad Cox, Bud Tribble, Business Insider, Byte (magazine), Cairo (operating system), Canon Inc., Carbon (API), CD-ROM, Central Intelligence Agency, Central processing unit, Chair (officer), Chief executive officer, Classic Mac OS, Cocoa (API), Cocoa text system, Code name, Compaq, Computer data storage, Computer hardware, Computer network, Convention (meeting), DARPA, Dell, Deutsche Bank, Display PostScript, Doom (1993 video game), Doom (franchise), Dynamic web page, Ethernet, EWeek, Fast Company, Fat binary, Finder (software), Forbes, ... Expand index (138 more) »
- 1997 disestablishments in California
- Apple Inc. acquisitions
- Computer companies disestablished in 1997
- Computer companies established in 1985
- Steve Jobs
- Technology companies disestablished in 1997
- Technology companies established in 1985
ABC News (United States)
ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.
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Addison-Wesley
Addison–Wesley is an American publisher of textbooks and computer literature.
Adobe FreeHand
Adobe FreeHand (formerly Macromedia FreeHand and Aldus FreeHand) was a computer application for creating two-dimensional vector graphics oriented primarily to professional illustration, desktop publishing and content creation for the Web.
Adobe Inc.
Adobe Inc., formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American computer software company based in San Jose, California.
AIM alliance
The AIM alliance, also known as the PowerPC alliance, was formed on October 2, 1991, between Apple, IBM, and Motorola.
Amiga
Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.
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Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West.
API
An is a way for two or more computer programs or components to communicate with each other.
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Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley. NeXT and Apple Inc. are Steve Jobs and technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Apple Lisa
Lisa is a desktop computer developed by Apple, produced from January 19, 1983 to August 1, 1986, and succeeded by Macintosh.
Apple Mail
Mail is an email client included by Apple Inc. with its operating systems macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and visionOS. NeXT and Apple Mail are 1997 mergers and acquisitions.
Apple University Consortium
The Apple University Consortium is a partnership between Apple Australia and a number of Australian universities.
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Avie Tevanian
Avadis "Avie" Tevanian (born 1961) is an American-Armenian software engineer.
Bank One Corporation
Bank One Corporation was an American bank founded in 1968 and at its peak the sixth-largest bank in the United States.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
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Board of directors
A board of directors is an executive committee that supervises the activities of a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government agency.
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Brad Cox
Brad J. Cox (May 2, 1944 – January 2, 2021) was an American computer scientist who was known mostly for creating the Objective-C programming language with his business partner Tom Love and for his work in software engineering (specifically software reuse) and software componentry.
Bud Tribble
Guy L. "Bud" Tribble is a software technologist known for his work on the original Apple Macintosh.
Business Insider
Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.
Byte (magazine)
Byte (stylized as BYTE) was a microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage.
Cairo (operating system)
Cairo was the codename for a project at Microsoft from 1991 to 1996.
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Canon Inc.
Canon Inc. (Hepburn) is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, specializing in optical, imaging, and industrial products, such as lenses, cameras, medical equipment, scanners, printers, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
Carbon (API)
Carbon was one of two primary C-based application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Apple for the macOS (formerly Mac OS X and OS X) operating system.
CD-ROM
A CD-ROM (compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains data computers can read—but not write or erase—CD-ROMs.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Central processing unit
A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the most important processor in a given computer.
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Chair (officer)
The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly.
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.
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Classic Mac OS
Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9.
Cocoa (API)
Cocoa is Apple's native object-oriented application programming interface (API) for its desktop operating system macOS.
Cocoa text system
The Cocoa text system (formerly known simply by the primary class name NSText) is the linked network of classes, protocols, interfaces and objects that provide typography and text field editing capabilities and to Cocoa applications on Apple's macOS, where it is the primary text-handling system.
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Code name
A code name, codename, call sign, or cryptonym is a code word or name used, sometimes clandestinely, to refer to another name, word, project, or person.
Compaq
Compaq Computer Corporation (sometimes abbreviated to CQ prior to the 2007 rebranding) was an American information technology company founded in 1982 that developed, sold, and supported computers and related products and services. NeXT and compaq are Defunct computer companies of the United States, Defunct computer hardware companies and Defunct computer systems companies.
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Computer data storage
Computer data storage or digital data storage is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media that are used to retain digital data.
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Computer hardware
Computer hardware includes the physical parts of a computer, such as the central processing unit (CPU), random access memory (RAM), motherboard, computer data storage, graphics card, sound card, and computer case.
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Computer network
A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes.
Convention (meeting)
A convention (or event), in the sense of a meeting, is a gathering of individuals who meet at an arranged place and time in order to discuss or engage in some common interest.
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DARPA
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
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Dell
Dell Inc. is an American technology company that develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services.
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Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank AG is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
Display PostScript
Display PostScript (or DPS) is a 2D graphics engine system for computers that uses the PostScript (PS) imaging model and language (originally developed for computer printing) to generate on-screen graphics.
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Doom (1993 video game)
Doom is a first-person shooter game developed and published by id Software.
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Doom (franchise)
Doom (stylized as DOOM) is an American media franchise created by John Carmack, John Romero, Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud, and Tom Hall.
Dynamic web page
A dynamic web page is a web page constructed at runtime (during software execution), as opposed to a static web page, delivered as it is stored.
Ethernet
Ethernet is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN).
EWeek
eWeek (Enterprise Newsweekly, stylized as eWEEK), formerly PCWeek, is a technology and business magazine.
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Fast Company
Fast Company is a monthly American business magazine published in print and online that focuses on technology, business, and design.
Fat binary
A fat binary (or multiarchitecture binary) is a computer executable program or library which has been expanded (or "fattened") with code native to multiple instruction sets which can consequently be run on multiple processor types.
Finder (software)
The Finder is the default file manager and graphical user interface shell used on all Macintosh operating systems.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
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Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States.
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Fortune (magazine)
Fortune (stylized in all caps) is an American global business magazine headquartered in New York City.
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François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 19168 January 1996) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest holder of that position in the history of France.
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Fremont, California
Fremont is a city in Alameda County, California, United States.
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Frog Design
frog (styled as "frog, part of Capgemini Invent") is a global creative and design consultancy founded in 1969 by industrial designer Hartmut Esslinger in Mutlangen, Germany, where it was initially named “esslinger design”.
George Crow
George L. Crow Jr. was a member of the original Apple Macintosh team in 1984 at Apple Computer.
Gil Amelio
Gilbert Frank Amelio (born March 1, 1943) is an American technology executive.
Graphical user interface
A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation.
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Graphics card
A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics accelerator, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or colloquially GPU) is a computer expansion card that generates a feed of graphics output to a display device such as a monitor.
Hard disk drive
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.
Hartmut Esslinger
Hartmut Esslinger (born 5 June 1944) is a German-American industrial designer and inventor.
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Health insurance
Health insurance or medical insurance (also known as medical aid in South Africa) is a type of insurance that covers the whole or a part of the risk of a person incurring medical expenses.
HighBeam Research
HighBeam Research was a paid search engine and full text online archive owned by Gale, a subsidiary of Cengage, for thousands of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newswires, trade magazines, and encyclopedias in English.
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HSN
HSN, an initialism of its former name Home Shopping Network, is an American free-to-air television network owned by the Qurate Retail Group, which also owns catalog company Cornerstone Brands.
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I. M. Pei
Ieoh Ming Pei – website of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners (April 26, 1917 – May 16, 2019) was a Chinese-American architect.
I486
The Intel 486, officially named i486 and also known as 80486, is a microprocessor.
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IBM PC–compatible
IBM PC–compatible computers are technically similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT, all from computer giant IBM, that are able to use the same software and expansion cards.
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Id Software
id Software LLC is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas.
InfoTrac
InfoTrac is a family of full-text databases of content from academic journals and general magazines, of which the majority are targeted to the English-speaking North American market.
Insider trading
Insider trading is the trading of a public company's stock or other securities (such as bonds or stock options) based on material, nonpublic information about the company.
ITunes Store
The iTunes Store is a digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, as a result of Steve Jobs' push to open a digital marketplace for music.
Jean-Louis Gassée
Jean-Louis Gassée (born 24 March 1944 in Paris, France) is a business executive.
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Joanna Hoffman
Joanna Karine Hoffman (born July 27, 1955) is a Polish-American marketing executive.
John Patrick Crecine
John Patrick "Pat" Crecine (August 22, 1939 – April 28, 2008) was an American educator and economist who served as President of Georgia Tech, Dean at Carnegie Mellon University, business executive, and professor.
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John Sculley
John Sculley III (born April 6, 1939) is an American businessman, entrepreneur and investor in high-tech startups.
Lean manufacturing
Lean manufacturing is a method of manufacturing goods aimed primarily at reducing times within the production system as well as response times from suppliers and customers.
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Library (computing)
In computer science, a library is a collection of read-only resources that is leveraged during software development to implement a computer program.
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List of built-in macOS apps
This is a list of built-in apps and system components developed by Apple Inc. for macOS that come bundled by default or are installed through a system update.
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Lotus Improv
Lotus Improv is a discontinued spreadsheet program from Lotus Development released in 1991 for the NeXTSTEP platform and then for Windows 3.1 in 1993.
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall is the concert hall component of the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center in San Francisco, California.
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Mac (computer)
Mac, short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple. NeXT and mac (computer) are Steve Jobs.
Mac OS X 10.0
Mac OS X 10.0 (code named Cheetah) is the first major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system.
Mac OS X Server 1.0
Mac OS X Server 1.0 is an operating system developed by Apple, Inc. released on March 16, 1999.
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Mach (kernel)
Mach is a kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University by Richard Rashid and Avie Tevanian to support operating system research, primarily distributed and parallel computing.
Macintosh 128K
The Macintosh, later rebranded as the Macintosh 128K, is the original Macintosh personal computer, from Apple.
Macintosh Office
The Macintosh Office was an effort by Apple Computer to design an office-wide computing environment consisting of Macintosh computers, a local area networking system, a file server, and a networked laser printer.
MacOS
macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.
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MacWEEK
MacWEEK was a controlled-circulation weekly trade journal that focused on the Apple Macintosh.
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Macworld
Macworld is a digital magazine and website dedicated to products and software of Apple Inc., published by Foundry, a subsidiary of IDG.
Magneto-optical drive
A magneto-optical drive is a kind of optical disc drive capable of writing and rewriting data upon a magneto-optical disc.
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Mass storage
In computing, mass storage refers to the storage of large amounts of data in a persisting and machine-readable fashion.
McGraw Hill Education
McGraw Hill is an American publishing company for educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.
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Megabyte
The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
Memory paging
In computer operating systems, memory paging (or swapping on some Unix-like systems) is a memory management scheme by which a computer stores and retrieves data from secondary storage for use in main memory.
Miller columns
Miller columns (also known as cascading lists) are a browsing/visualization technique that can be applied to tree structures.
Moscone Center
The George R. Moscone Convention Center, popularly known as the Moscone Center, is the largest convention and exhibition complex in San Francisco, California, United States.
Motorola 68030
The Motorola 68030 ("sixty-eight-oh-thirty") is a 32-bit microprocessor in the Motorola 68000 family.
Motorola 68040
The Motorola 68040 ("sixty-eight-oh-forty") is a 32-bit microprocessor in the Motorola 68000 series, released in 1990.
Motorola 88000
The 88000 (m88k for short) is a RISC instruction set architecture developed by Motorola during the 1980s.
Motorola 88110
The MC88110 was a microprocessor developed by Motorola that implemented the 88000 instruction set architecture (ISA).
Music Kit
The Music Kit was a software package for the NeXT Computer system.
National Reconnaissance Office
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense which designs, builds, launches, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the U.S. federal government.
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National Security Agency
The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
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Newsweek
Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.
NeXT
NeXT, Inc. (later NeXT Computer, Inc. and NeXT Software, Inc.) was an American technology company headquartered in Redwood City, California that specialized in computer workstations for higher education and business markets, and later developed web software. NeXT and NeXT are 1985 establishments in California, 1997 disestablishments in California, 1997 mergers and acquisitions, American companies established in 1985, apple Inc. acquisitions, computer companies disestablished in 1997, computer companies established in 1985, Defunct companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Defunct computer companies based in California, Defunct computer companies of the United States, Defunct computer hardware companies, Defunct computer systems companies, Defunct software companies of the United States, privately held companies based in California, Steve Jobs, technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area, technology companies disestablished in 1997 and technology companies established in 1985.
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NeXT character set
The NeXT character set (often aliased as NeXTSTEP encoding vector, WE8NEXTSTEP or next-multinational) was used by the NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP operating systems on NeXT workstations beginning in 1988.
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NeXT Computer
NeXT Computer (also called the NeXT Computer System) is a workstation computer that was developed, marketed, and sold by NeXT Inc. It was introduced in October 1988 as the company's first and flagship product, at a price of, aimed at the higher-education market. NeXT and NeXT Computer are Steve Jobs.
NeXT Introduction
The NeXT Introduction, sub-titled "the Introduction to the NeXT Generation of Computers for Education", was a lavish, invitation-only gala launch event for the NeXT Computer (also called the NeXT Computer System).
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NeXT Laser Printer
The NeXT Laser Printer was a 400 DPI PostScript laser printer, sold by NeXT from late to for the NeXTstation and NeXTcube workstations and manufactured by Canon Inc. It included an adjustable paper tray, which enabled it to print on several paper sizes including A4, letter-size, and those of legal and envelope varieties.
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NeXT MegaPixel Display
The NeXT MegaPixel Display is a range of CRT-based computer monitors manufactured and sold by NeXT for the NeXTcube and NeXTstation workstations, designed by Hartmut Esslinger/Frog Design Inc.
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NeXTcube
The NeXTcube is a high-end workstation computer developed, manufactured, and sold by NeXT from 1990 to 1993. NeXT and NeXTcube are Steve Jobs.
NeXTcube Turbo
The NeXTcube Turbo is a high-end workstation computer developed, manufactured and sold by NeXT. NeXT and NeXTcube Turbo are Steve Jobs.
NeXTdimension
The NeXTdimension (ND) is an accelerated 32-bit color board manufactured and sold by NeXT from 1991 that gave the NeXTcube color capabilities with PostScript planned.
NeXTstation
NeXTstation is a high-end workstation computer developed, manufactured and sold by NeXT from 1990 until 1993.
NeXTSTEP
NeXTSTEP is a discontinued object-oriented, multitasking operating system based on the Mach kernel and the UNIX-derived BSD.
Nissan
is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
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NuBus
NuBus is a 32-bit parallel computer bus, originally developed at MIT and standardized in 1987 as a part of the NuMachine workstation project.
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Object-oriented programming
Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of objects, which can contain data and code: data in the form of fields (often known as attributes or properties), and code in the form of procedures (often known as methods).
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Objective-C
Objective-C is a high-level general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language.
OncoMed
OncoMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was a public American pharmaceutical development company headquartered in Redwood City, California.
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OpenStep
OpenStep is an object-oriented application programming interface (API) specification developed by NeXT.
Orphaned technology
Orphaned technology refers to computer technologies that have been abandoned by their original developers.
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PA-RISC
Precision Architecture RISC (PA-RISC) or Hewlett Packard Precision Architecture (HP/PA or simply HPPA), is a general purpose computer instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Hewlett-Packard from the 1980s until the 2000s.
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Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto (Spanish for) is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.
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Paul Berg
Paul Berg (June 30, 1926 – February 15, 2023) was an American biochemist and professor at Stanford University.
Paul Rand
Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum; August 15, 1914 – November 26, 1996) was an American art director and graphic designer.
PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.
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Perot Systems
Perot Systems Corporation was an information technology services provider founded in 1988 by a group of investors led by Ross Perot and based in Plano, Texas, United States.
Pixel
In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in a dot matrix display device.
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Pizza-box form factor
In computing, a pizza box is a style of case design for desktop computers or network switches.
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Plano, Texas
Plano is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, where it is the largest city in Collin County.
Porting
In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software for the purpose of achieving some form of execution in a computing environment that is different from the one that a given program (meant for such execution) was originally designed for (e.g., different CPU, operating system, or third party library).
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PowerPC
PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM.
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Privately held company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets.
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Quake (video game)
Quake is a first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive.
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Quora
Quora is a social question-and-answer website and online knowledge market headquartered in Mountain View, California. NeXT and Quora are privately held companies based in California.
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Random-access memory
Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code.
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Recombinant DNA
Recombinant DNA (rDNA) molecules are DNA molecules formed by laboratory methods of genetic recombination (such as molecular cloning) that bring together genetic material from multiple sources, creating sequences that would not otherwise be found in the genome.
Reduced instruction set computer
In electronics and computer science, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) is a computer architecture designed to simplify the individual instructions given to the computer to accomplish tasks.
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Redwood City, California
Redwood City is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Northern California's Bay Area, approximately south of San Francisco, and northwest of San Jose.
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Rhapsody (operating system)
Rhapsody is an operating system that was developed by Apple Computer after its purchase of NeXT in the late 1990s.
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Rich Page
Richard Page is an alumnus of Apple Inc. He was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer in the 1980s, and later joined Steve Jobs at NeXT.
Ross Perot
Henry Ross Perot Sr. (June 27, 1930 – July 9, 2019) was an American business magnate, politician, and philanthropist.
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
SAP
SAP SE is a German multinational software company based in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg.
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Scott McNealy
Scott McNealy (born November 13, 1954) is an American businessman.
Services menu
The Services menu (or simply Services) is a user interface element in macOS.
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation.
Simson Garfinkel
Simson L. Garfinkel (born 1965) is the Chief Scientist and Chief Operating Officer of BasisTech in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Software
Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.
Software architecture
Software architecture is the set of structures needed to reason about a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems.
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SPARC
SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture originally developed by Sun Microsystems.
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Spreadsheet
A spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form.
St. Martin's Press
St.
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Static web page
A static web page, sometimes called a flat page or a stationary page, is a web page that is delivered to a web browser exactly as stored, in contrast to dynamic web pages which are generated by a web application.
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar.
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC microprocessors. NeXT and Sun Microsystems are Defunct companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Defunct computer companies of the United States, Defunct computer hardware companies, Defunct computer systems companies and Defunct software companies of the United States.
Susan Barnes (computing)
Susan Kelly Barnes is an alumna of Apple Inc. She was Controller of the Macintosh Division at Apple Computer.
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Susan Kare
Susan Kare ("care"; born February 5, 1954) is an American artist and graphic designer, who contributed interface elements and typefaces for the first Apple Macintosh personal computer from 1983 to 1986.
Swiss Bank Corporation
Swiss Bank Corporation (French: Société de banque suisse; German: Schweizerischer Bankverein) was a Swiss investment bank and financial services company located in Switzerland.
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Taligent
Taligent Inc. (a portmanteau of "talent" and "intelligent") was an American software company. NeXT and Taligent are Defunct software companies of the United States.
Taskbar
The taskbar is a graphical user interface element that has been part of Microsoft Windows since Windows 95, displaying and facilitating switching between running programs.
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Tertiary education
Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education.
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The Indian Express
The Indian Express is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by Ramnath Goenka with an investment by capitalist partner Raja Mohan Prasad.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The New York Times International Edition
The New York Times International Edition is an English-language daily newspaper distributed internationally by the New York Times Company.
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The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine is an American Sunday magazine included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.
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Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP.
TNW (website)
TNW (The Next Web) is a website and annual series of conferences focused on new technology and start-up companies in Europe.
United States Naval Research Laboratory
The United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps.
See NeXT and United States Naval Research Laboratory
User space and kernel space
A modern computer operating system usually uses virtual memory to provide separate address spaces, or separate regions of a single address space, called user space and kernel space.
See NeXT and User space and kernel space
Vice president
A vice president or vice-president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank.
Web framework
A web framework (WF) or web application framework (WAF) is a software framework that is designed to support the development of web applications including web services, web resources, and web APIs.
WebObjects
WebObjects is a discontinued Java web application server and a server-based web application framework originally developed by NeXT Software, Inc. WebObject's hallmark features are its object-orientation, database connectivity, and prototyping tools.
Wet lab
A wet lab, or experimental lab, is a type of laboratory where it is necessary to handle various types of chemicals and potential "wet" hazards, so the room has to be carefully designed, constructed, and controlled to avoid spillage and contamination.
See NeXT and Wet lab
Windowing system
In computing, a windowing system (or window system) is a software suite that manages separately different parts of display screens.
Windows NT
Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows product line, the first version of which, Windows NT 3.1, was released on July 27, 1993.
Wired (magazine)
Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
Workstation
A workstation is a special computer designed for technical or scientific applications.
World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.
See NeXT and World Wide Web Consortium
WorldWideWeb
WorldWideWeb (later renamed Nexus to avoid confusion between the software and the World Wide Web) is the first web browser and web page editor.
WriteNow
WriteNow is a word processor application for the original Apple Macintosh and later computers in the NeXT product line.
ZDNET
ZDNET is a business technology news website owned and operated by Red Ventures.
See NeXT and ZDNET
10BASE2
10BASE2 (also known as cheapernet, thin Ethernet, thinnet, and thinwire) is a variant of Ethernet that uses thin coaxial cable terminated with BNC connectors to build a local area network.
See NeXT and 10BASE2
2D computer graphics
2D computer graphics is the computer-based generation of digital images—mostly from two-dimensional models (such as 2D geometric models, text, and digital images) and by techniques specific to them.
See NeXT and 2D computer graphics
3M computer
The 3M computer industrial goal was first proposed in the early 1980s by Raj Reddy and his colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as a minimum specification for academic and technical workstations.
See also
1997 disestablishments in California
- AMiniature
- Amador Central Railroad
- Ambassador College
- Amdahl Corporation
- Anaheim Piranhas
- Anaheim Splash
- Bluegrass Cardinals
- Boss Film Studios
- Camarillo State Mental Hospital
- Diatribe (band)
- DigitalStyle
- EurekaBank
- Exponential Technology
- Four Star Television
- GTE Interactive Media
- Genisco Technology
- Ground Equipment Facility J-31
- Heaven's Gate (religious group)
- Hulaville Forest
- KPH (radio station)
- Kausion
- Kiva Software
- Long Beach Naval Shipyard
- Los Angeles Blades
- Might (magazine)
- Mike Fink Keel Boats
- Montgomery Securities
- Naval Station Treasure Island
- Naval Training Center San Diego
- NeXT
- New World Pictures
- Price Club
- Rocket Jets
- S.E. Rykoff
- Sacramento Scorpions
- Salinas Peppers
- Samuel Goldwyn Television
- San Francisco Review of Books
- Spirit (band)
- Tandem Computers
- The Outpatience
- Theme park live adaptations of The Lion King
- Your Black Muslim Bakery
Apple Inc. acquisitions
- Anobit
- AuthenTec
- BIS Records
- Beats Electronics
- Beddit
- CUPS
- Chomp (search engine)
- Color Labs
- Cover Flow
- Cue (search engine)
- Drive.ai
- Emagic
- Final Cut Pro
- FingerWorks
- FoundationDB
- GraphLab
- HopStop
- InPhase Technologies
- InVisage Technologies
- Intrinsity
- Lala (website)
- List of mergers and acquisitions by Apple
- Metaio
- NeXT
- Nothing Real
- P.A. Semi
- Polar Rose (facial recognition)
- Potential acquisition of Disney by Apple
- Power Computing Corporation
- PrimeSense
- Primephonic
- Shazam (music app)
- Shortcuts (Apple)
- Silicon Grail
- Siri
- SoundJam MP
- Swell Radio
- TestFlight
- Texture (app)
- The Keyboard Company
- Topspin Media
- Topsy Labs
Computer companies disestablished in 1997
- Advanced Logic Research
- Amdahl Corporation
- Cardinal Technologies
- Cascade Communications
- Cyrix
- Data Securities International
- DayStar Digital
- Dayna Communications
- Exponential Technology
- Genisco Technology
- Leading Edge Products
- Livingston Enterprises
- Microcom
- Micropolis Corporation
- NeXT
- Reply Corporation
- Tandem Computers
- Wang Laboratories
Computer companies established in 1985
- ATI Technologies
- Alliance Semiconductor
- American Computer and Peripheral
- Boca Research
- Colorado Memory Systems
- ComputerWare
- Concurrent Computer Corporation
- Conner Peripherals
- Gateway, Inc.
- In Win Development
- Leading Technology
- Midwest Scientific
- NeXT
- PC Power and Cooling
- PNY Technologies
- Plextor
- PrairieTek
- Shiva Corporation
- Soyo Group
- Stardent Inc.
- Supertek Computers
- SynOptics
- TriQuint Semiconductor
Steve Jobs
- Apple I
- Apple Inc.
- Big Mac (computer)
- History of Apple Inc.
- Jackling House
- Mac (computer)
- NeXT
- NeXT Computer
- NeXTcube
- NeXTcube Turbo
- Pixar
- Reality distortion field
- Steve Jobs
- Steve Jobs Theater
- Steve Wozniak
- Stevenote
- Thoughts on Flash
- Venus (yacht)
Technology companies disestablished in 1997
- Gandalf Technologies
- Kiva Software
- McDonnell Douglas
- Microcom
- NeXT
- Optimization Systems Associates
- Reply Corporation
- Wang Laboratories
Technology companies established in 1985
- Alliance Semiconductor
- AlliedSignal
- Bittium (company)
- CL 9
- Clearblue
- Conner Peripherals
- Cygnus Inc
- DDC-I
- Doremi Labs
- E-TEN
- NeXT
- Necotrans
- Okmetic
- PrairieTek
- Qualcomm
- SLPowers
- SatCon Technology Corporation
- Standish Group
- Surrey Satellite Technology
- Systematic Software Engineering
- Xeltek
References
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