Originally posted by johnblommers
Steve Jobs company Next Step sold a cube computer - a black one, but the company stopped producing the hardware and wisely focused on highly innovative software instead. Ultimately Apple purchased Next Step and used Next OS as its next generation Mac OS and dubbed it Mac OS X.
(Ben from Short Circuit faux Indian voice) You are not knowing your Mac history...
Apple decided NOT to acquire NextStep or the UNIX variant they developed and instead based OS X on FreeBSD.