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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Shared library (section OpenStep)
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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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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Dynamic library (section OpenStep)
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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Carbon (API) (section Open source implementations)
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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Rhapsody (operating system) (redirect from OPENSTEP 5.0)
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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Darwin (operating system) (redirect from Open Darwin)
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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NeXT character set (redirect from OPENSTEP encoding)
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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