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Yes, bit there could have been new life if all the NeXT devs had gotten their promised entrée into the Windows market as scheduled. Anderson Financial Services in particular were looking forward to a big payout for selling PasteUp.app license.

The notable NeXT code considerations at Adobe are:

- they lost the source code to Glenn Reid's nifty "TouchType.app" - they couldn't be bothered to revive the NeXT source code for Altsys Virtuoso which Macromedia Freehand was based on




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