Jobs founded
NeXT Inc. in 1985 after his resignation
[79][85] with $7 million. A year later he was running out of money, and with no product on the horizon, he sought venture capital. Eventually, Jobs attracted the attention of billionaire
Ross Perot who invested heavily in the company.
[86] NeXT workstations were first released in 1990, priced at $9,999. Like the
Apple Lisa, the NeXT workstation was technologically advanced, but was largely dismissed as cost-prohibitive by the educational sector for which it was designed.
[87] The NeXT workstation was known for its technical strengths, chief among them its
object-oriented software development system. Jobs marketed NeXT products to the financial, scientific, and academic community, highlighting its innovative, experimental new technologies, such as the
Mach kernel, the
digital signal processor chip, and the built-in
Ethernet port.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the
World Wide Web on a NeXT computer at CERN .
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