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intention was to buy a right to license NeXTSTEP on its
mainframe systems, in order to add GUIs to its UNIX computers. Moreover, IBM was trying to find a way out of its morass with software developer
Microsoft.
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<h2>The NeXT Station</h2>
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Despite those signs of optimism, the NeXT Cube was a blatant failure on the
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marketplace. It simply did not sell: universities and students found it way too expensive. Firstly, by 1988, it was common for students to have a
Macintosh in their dorm rooms. The days when you had to go to the computer lab to use a workstation like the Cube
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