steve jobs

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steve jobs - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Stephen Jobs
  Jobs
  Steve Jobs
  
     <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)