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Computer history is paved with faults that, in technical perspective, should have never happened.

NeXT was not ahead of it's times. It hasn't been technically surpassed by any other product in the "next" 10 years.

So NeXT is one. IMHO, Amiga 1200, Archimedes and Sinclair QL are other ones.

It seems a mix of mismanagement and marketing (which maybe is still mismanagement).

Sic transit gloria mundi.

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Both NeXT and Archimedes live on in one of the most successful computer products ever, so I guess „fault“ is relative.

If you're using a modern Mac today, you're essentially running a modernized version of NeXTSTEP, so actually it's NeXT which has survived by 'reverse-acquiring' Apple, and the original Mac has joined the technology graveyard along with Amiga, Atari etc...

...or actually... modern Macs are a NeXT/Archimedes hybrid - the software comes from NeXT, while the hardware is of Archimedes heritage ;)

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