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| The original ], ] ] that ] developed to run on its proprietary NeXT computers (informally known as "black boxes"). NEXTSTEP includes a specific ], an interface builder, object-oriented application builder and several "kits" of prebuilt software objects such as the Indexing Kit for databases. This software runs on top of NeXT's version of the ] operating system on NeXT, ], ], ] and Sun ] computers. | The original ], ] ] that ], Inc. developed to run on its proprietary NeXT computers (informally known as "black boxes"). NEXTSTEP includes a specific ], an interface builder, object-oriented application builder and several "kits" of prebuilt software objects such as the Indexing Kit for databases. This software runs on top of NeXT's version of the ] operating system on NeXT, ], ], ] and Sun ] computers. | ||
| The official spelling changed from "NeXTstep" to "NeXTStep" to "NeXTSTEP", and finally "NEXTSTEP". | The official spelling changed from "NeXTstep" to "NeXTStep" to "NeXTSTEP", and finally "NEXTSTEP". | ||
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The original object-oriented, multitasking operating system that NeXT Computer, Inc. developed to run on its proprietary NeXT computers (informally known as "black boxes"). NEXTSTEP includes a specific graphical user interface, an interface builder, object-oriented application builder and several "kits" of prebuilt software objects such as the Indexing Kit for databases. This software runs on top of NeXT's version of the Mach operating system on NeXT, 486, Pentium, HP-PA and Sun SPARC computers.
The official spelling changed from "NeXTstep" to "NeXTStep" to "NeXTSTEP", and finally "NEXTSTEP".
The last release of NEXTSTEP was 3.3, which NeXT then developed into OpenStep.
With Apple Computer's acquisition of NeXT in 1997, Apple took over development of NeXTSTEP (Apple's spelling restored the small "e"), and (after several stumbles) was reborn as Mac OS X. Mac OS X's NeXTSTEP heritage can be seen in the Cocoa development environment, where the Objective-C library objects have "NS" prefixes!
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