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Within a few weeks Jobs showed up at IBM's Armonk, New York, headquarters with his software engineer Bud Tribble.
沒過幾周，喬布斯就和軟件工程師巴德·特里布爾出現在IBM位于紐約州阿蒙克市的總部。
They put on a demo of NeXT, which impressed the IBM engineers.
他們演示了NeXT，令IBM的工程師難以忘懷。
Of particular significance was NeXTSTEP, the machine's object-oriented operating system.
尤為意義重大的是，NeXT電腦面向對象的操作系統NeXTSTEP受到了格外關注。
"NeXTSTEP took care of a lot of trivial programming chores that slow down the software development process,"
“NeXTSTEP會處理很多導致軟件開發過程遲緩的瑣碎的編程問題?！?/div>
said Andrew Heller, the general manager of IBM's workstation unit,
IBM智能終端部門的總經理安德魯·海勒表示，
who was so impressed by Jobs that he named his newborn son Steve.
他非常欣賞喬布斯，以至于也給自己的兒子起名為史蒂夫。
The negotiations lasted into 1988, with Jobs becoming prickly over tiny details.
雙方的談判一直持續到1988年，其間喬布斯對于微小的細節頻頻發怒。
He would stalk out of meetings over disagreements about colors or design, only to be calmed down by Tribble or Lewin.
在顏色和設計問題上出現分歧時，他會在會議中途離席，只有特里布爾或丹·盧因才能令他平靜下來。
He didn't seem to know which frightened him more, IBM or Microsoft.
他不知道IBM還是微軟哪一個令自己更害怕。
In April Perot decided to play host for a mediating session at his Dallas headquarters, and a deal was struck:
4月，佩羅決定在自己的達拉斯總部舉辦調停會議，一個令人震驚的交易就此誕生了
IBM would license the current version of the NeXTSTEP software,
IBM將獲得授權使用NeXTSTEP軟件的目前版本，
and if the managers liked it, they would use it on some of their workstations.
如果IBM喜歡這款軟件，將會用在自己的一些工作站上。
