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NeXT was a company founded by Steve Jobs when he left Apple in 1985.

It made Hardware based on the Motorola 68000? series and Software based on the Mach Kernel.

It failed in the marketplace and was purchased in 1997 by Apple where it was used to build MacOSX.

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