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“I think Ross would be an
excellent president. I think he’s
got a real chance and I’m
helping him every way I can.”
Steve Jobs, commenting on Perot’s
failed 1992 bid for the U.S. presidency
(NeXTWORLD, Fall 1992)
board of directors in June, complaining that “I shouldn’t have let you guys
have all that money. Biggest mistake I made.”
At the rst NeXTWORLD Expo held in San Francisco on January 22,
1992, Jobs announced cheaper, faster, “Turbo” versions of the NeXTstation,
NeXTstation Color, and NeXTcube, all built around the 33MHz Motorola
68040 processor. More signicantly, he announced NEXTSTEP 3.0 and
NEXTSTEP 486, a $995 ...