Insiders familiar with what goes on at Finale HQ told me they saw Finale demonstrated on Steve Jobs' NeXT computer back in 1992. But for some reason, they shelved it.

The NeXT operating system (NeXTSTEP) was actually a precursor of today's OS X. It was based on BSD 4.3 Unix and used PostScript for everything, including manipulating the display. So most of the Mac specific code for Finale has been around for a long time.

      - Mark