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Stephen Jobs definition
person Stephen P. Jobs (born 24 February 1955). The co-founder and ex-president of
Apple Computer, leader of the team that produced the
Macintosh.
In 1979, when he was president of Apple, Steven Jobs saw a demonstration of
Smalltalk at
Xerox's
Palo Alto Research Center. He and other Apple employees were "very impressed with the unique and revolutionary user-friendly design".
The first
Macintosh was released in January 1984. Jobs described it as
insanely great.
Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985 and founded
Next, Inc.. In December 1996 he was re-employed by Apple when they bought NeXT.
See also
lithium lick,
Mathematica.
(1997-03-18)
