The Steve Jobs deal w Michael Dell that could’ve changed Apple and tech history
cnet.com> Dell says Jobs came to his house in Texas several times that year, trying to convince him to use the Next operating system on Dell PCs by arguing that it was better than Microsoft's Windows software and could undermine the Unix workstation market being touted by Sun Microsystems. The problem, Dell says he told Jobs, was that there were no applications for it and zero customer interest.
The irony of that, now in restrospective from 2021.