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Evolution of Berkeley Unix and NeXTSTEP

In 1974, UC Berkeley installed its first Unix system, leading to significant modifications by students and staff, particularly after receiving VAX computers in 1978. The project gained attention and funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, resulting in widespread adoption of Berkeley's Unix version. Steve Jobs later founded NeXT Inc., which produced computers running NeXTSTEP, one of which was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first web server for the World Wide Web.

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Evolution of Berkeley Unix and NeXTSTEP

In 1974, UC Berkeley installed its first Unix system, leading to significant modifications by students and staff, particularly after receiving VAX computers in 1978. The project gained attention and funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, resulting in widespread adoption of Berkeley's Unix version. Steve Jobs later founded NeXT Inc., which produced computers running NeXTSTEP, one of which was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first web server for the World Wide Web.

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In 1974, University of California, Berkeley installed its first Unix system.

Over
time, students and staff in the computer science department there began adding new
programs to make things easier, such as text editors. When Berkeley received new
VAX computers in 1978 with Unix installed, the school's undergraduates modified
Unix even more in order to take advantage of the computer's hardware possibilities.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the US Department of Defense took
interest, and decided to fund the project. Many schools, corporations, and
government organizations took notice and started to use Berkeley's version of Unix
instead of the official one distributed by AT&T.

Steve Jobs, upon leaving Apple Inc. in 1985, formed NeXT Inc., a company that
manufactured high-end computers running on a variation of BSD called NeXTSTEP. One
of these computers was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first webserver to create the
World Wide Web.

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