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    OpenStep is an object-oriented application programming interface (API) specification developed by NeXT. It provides a framework for building graphical...
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  • Apple needed a successor to the classic Mac OS, and merged NeXTSTEP and OpenStep with the Macintosh user environment to create Mac OS X. All of Apple's...
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  • system that was developed at NeXT in the late 1980s, previously called OPENSTEP and NEXTSTEP. Rhapsody was targeted to developers for a transition period...
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    withdrew from the hardware industry to concentrate on marketing OPENSTEP for Mach, its own OpenStep implementation for several other computer vendors. NeXT developed...
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    GNUstep is a free software implementation of the Cocoa (formerly OpenStep) Objective-C frameworks, widget toolkit, and application development tools for...
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  • direct successor of OpenStep. It was to have had an emulation base for classic Mac OS applications, named Blue Box. The OpenStep base of libraries and...
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  • This led Apple to acquire NeXT in 1997, allowing NeXTSTEP, later called OPENSTEP, to serve as the basis for Apple's next generation operating system. This...
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  • Kit, or just Foundation for short, is an Objective-C framework in the OpenStep specification described by NeXT Computer, Inc.. It provides basic classes...
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  • syntax somewhat like a programming language. This same format was used by OPENSTEP. Strings are represented in C literal style: "This is a plist string\n";...
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  • porting the app to the entirely different Cocoa system, which originated in OPENSTEP. With the release of macOS 10.15 Catalina, the Carbon API was officially...
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  • vector, WE8NEXTSTEP or next-multinational) was used by the NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP operating systems on NeXT workstations beginning in 1988. It is based on...
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  • known as OPENSTEP), first released in 1989. After Apple bought NeXT in 1996, it announced it would base its next operating system on OPENSTEP. This was...
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  • into OPENSTEP which separated the object layers from the operating system below, allowing it to run with less modification on other platforms. OPENSTEP was...
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    1990s, and several years of development. Mac OS X is based on NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, and BSD Unix, to combine the stability, reliability, and security of Unix...
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    the macOS operating system by Apple. Terminal originated in NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, the predecessor operating systems of macOS. As a terminal emulator, the...
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  • address spaces of the processes. This has advantages. For instance, on the OpenStep system, applications were often only a few hundred kilobytes in size and...
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  • hardware production and focused on software tools, selling NeXTSTEP (and OPENSTEP) as a platform for custom programming. In order to circumvent the terms...
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    Unix-like operating-systems. It is designed to emulate NeXTSTEP's GUI as an OpenStep-compatible environment. Window Maker is part of the GNU Project. Window...
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  • computing environment based on the CORBA system in the 'back end' and OpenStep as the user interface. First started in 1990 and announced soon thereafter...
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    OS cannot use partitions larger than 4 GB) Operating System: NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP. NetBSD supports some of the NeXTstation's hardware. Peripherals: Modem...
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  • first show after the purchase of NeXT, and focused on the efforts to use OPENSTEP as the foundation of the next Mac OS. The plan at that time was to introduce...
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  • Foundation and Display PostScript, it became one of the core parts of the OpenStep specification of APIs. Later, AppKit and Foundation became part of Cocoa...
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    with NeXT to develop OpenStep, essentially a cross-platform version of the "upper layers" of the NeXTSTEP operating system. OpenStep would provide a NeXT-like...
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  • It may refer to: Used in GEM Used for application bundles in NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, GNUstep, macOS, iOS, and iPadOS Used for app packages in HarmonyOS .app...
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  • word processor and text editor, first featured in NeXT's NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. It is now distributed with macOS since Apple Inc.'s acquisition of NeXT...
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  • returned to Apple. Precursors to the original release of Mac OS X include OPENSTEP, Apple's Rhapsody project, and the Mac OS X Public Beta. macOS makes use...
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    Display: 1120×832 17" grayscale MegaPixel Display Operating System: NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP CPU: 33 MHz 68040 with integrated floating-point unit Digital Signal Processor:...
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  • to $16,700 in 2023) Discontinued 1991 (1991) Operating system NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP CPU Motorola 68030 @ 25 MHz, 68882 FPU @ 25 MHz, 56001 DSP @ 25 MHz Memory...
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  • standard library by the original developers has now largely been displaced by OpenStep FoundationKit variants. OpenCL C 2009 Apple, Khronos Group OpenCL specifies...
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  • succeeded Mac OS X Server 1.0, the first public release of Apple's new NeXT OPENSTEP-based operating system, which used a variant of the classic Mac OS's "Platinum"...
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