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Revision as of 12:02, 23 May 2002 by Ant (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The original object-orientated, multitasking operating system that NeXT, 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, NEXTSETP development was taken over by Apple, 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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