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Objects of Desire

By Katherine Bourzac

1988, NeXT OS
"In college I went out of my way to go to workstations with the NeXT OS. I was able to take mundane Unix tasks and do them with a good graphical user interface," says Matias Duarte, vice president of experience design at L.A. mobile-communications firm Helio. "That type of OS as a category is iconic, but the whole windowing and pointing paradigm is really old. I expected better by the 21st century. It's about time we started to break through the constraints of that paradigm." Shown here is a mid-1990s version of the NeXT OS, NeXTSTEP.