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As a small overhang from 2021, the following is still slumbering in our to-be-spoken-about-list™. Back in December, Steve Hayman captured this nice little piece of history in black letters on a digital white background.

The subject is Apple history. To be exact, it's about Apple's purchase of NeXT for $400 million. Steve was a systems engineer at NeXT, and in his article he provides first-hand insights into the weeks before and after the purchase unfolded from his point of view.

The NeXT operating system is still the basis of all incarnations of modern macOS variants for x86 and ARM processors. I would almost bet that some of Steve's code can still be found in it today. 🎰