Steve Jobs says his NeXT Computer Inc is taking a major risk in developing NeXTStep 3.0 for 80486-based personal computers, but reckons that it is the only serious competition for Microsoft Corp’s Windows: Jobs said at Comdex that NeXTStep was created in answer to the problem of ever-increasing amounts of code necessary for today’s increasingly complex applications – with NeXTStep’s object-oriented development tools, custom applications can be written up to 10 times faster than for MS-DOS or Windows, have greater quality and reliability, 83% fewer lines of code, at a 90% cost saving; he said that he was competing with Windows 3 because when monopolies come into play, innovation slows down.
