A team led by Avie Tevanian, who had joined the company after working as one of the Mach kernel engineers at Carnegie Mellon University, was to develop the NeXTSTEP operating system.
O echipă condusă de Avie Tevanian, care s-a alăturat companiei după ce a lucrat ca inginer pentru nucleul Mach la universitatea Carnegie Mellon, a fost desemnată să dezvolte sistemul de operare NeXTSTEP.