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The proposal was written on a Mac, but the actual software was written on a NeXTSTEP machine? Odd combination.

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@argv_minus_one @kdriscoll From Weaving the Web:

Extract from a book:

In the meantime, I got more involved with the Internet, and read up on hypertext. That's when I became more convinced than ever that I was on the right track. By early 1990 I still had received no reactions to the proposal. I decided to try to spark some interest by sending it around again. I reformatted it and put a new date on it: May 1990. I gave it to David Williams again, and again it got shelved.

During this time I was talking to Mike Sendall about buying a new kind of personal computer called the NeXT. NeXT Inc. had [end of page]

Extract from a book:

[start of page] recently been started by Steve Jobs, who had founded Apple Computer and brought the first intuitive point-and-click, folders interface to personal computers. Ben Segal, our Unix and Internet evangelist, had mentioned that the NeXT machine had a lot of intriguing features that might help us. I asked Mike to let me buy one (bringing Ben with me for weight), and he agreed. He also said, "Once you get the machine, why not try programming your hypertext thing on it?" I thought I saw a twinkle in his eye.

By buying a NeXT, we could justify my working on my long-delayed hypertext project as an experiment in using the NeXT operating system and development environment.

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