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    version of OpenStep for its own Mach-based Unix OS, stylized in all capital letters as OPENSTEP. The software libraries that shipped with OPENSTEP are a superset...
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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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  • 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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  • NeXTSTEP (redirect from NeXT Step)
    frameworks, producing OpenStep. OpenStep and its applications can run on multiple underlying operating systems, including OPENSTEP, Windows NT, and Solaris...
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    GNUstep (redirect from StepTalk)
    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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  • 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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  • system prevents replacement of shared system DLLs with earlier versions. OpenStep used a more flexible system, collecting a list of libraries from a number...
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  • macOS Cocoa API. Beginning as the successor to OPENSTEP/Mach, this framework has deviated from OpenStep compliance, and is in some places incompatible...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • largely on the existing OPENSTEP for Mach platform. The new Rhapsody OS strategy was relatively simple; it retained most of OpenStep's existing object libraries...
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    Vasko serving as project manager. Free and open-source software portal GNUstep Window Maker OpenStep LiteStep "Changelog", Afterstep, 2013-04-01, retrieved...
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  • capitalization. "OpenStep" refers to the object-oriented framework developed jointly by NeXT and Sun Microsystems, while "OPENSTEP" is what NeXT's NeXTSTEP...
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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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  • purchased NeXT in order to use their operating system, OpenStep, as the basis for future Mac products. OpenStep was based around the concept of the entire operating...
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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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  • most places where Objective-C is used, it is used with an OpenStep-like library such as OPENSTEP, Cocoa, or GNUstep, which provides functions similar to...
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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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  • Next Step or Nextstep may refer to: NeXTSTEP, a UNIX-based computer operating system developed by NeXT in the 1980s and 1990s OpenStep, an open platform...
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  • as a pioneering object-relational mapping product for its NeXTSTEP and OpenStep development platforms. EOF abstracts the process of interacting with a...
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  • entire system, were often tightly linked together. For instance, under OpenStep the entire operating system was, in effect, an Objective-C program. Any...
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  • In NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, and their lineal descendants macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS, and in GNUstep, a bundle is a file directory with...
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  • network of computers. It was created by NeXT Computer, Inc. using their OpenStep system, whose use of Objective-C made the package very easy to write. It...
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  • name. A version of Interface Builder is also used in the development of OpenStep software, and a very similar tool called Gorm exists for GNUstep. On March...
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  • 17, 1995, after only one month's development. As NeXTSTEP evolved into OPENSTEP and then Mac OS X, OmniWeb was updated to run on these platforms. These...
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  • Formerly embodied in developer NeXT Inc.'s OpenStep API specification, and implemented in NeXT's OPENSTEP operating system, and probably also in the earlier...
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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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  • :x) 3 The following is an example in Objective-C, implying either the OpenStep or Foundation Kit framework is used: // Foo class. @interface Foo : NSObject...
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  • and novel behavior by itself. A prime example of this approach is the OpenStep API, which partly thanks to being based on the dynamic Objective-C language...
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