• then based on Mac OS X (later renamed macOS). NeXTSTEP (also stylized as NeXTstep, NeXTStep, and NEXTSTEP) is a combination of several parts: a Unix operating...
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    computer innovation. NeXT partnered with Sun Microsystems to create a programming environment called OpenStep, which decoupled the NeXTSTEP operating system's...
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    look in Windows 95[citation needed]. The NeXTSTEP user interface was used in the NeXT line of computers. NeXTSTEP's first major version was released in 1989...
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  • Next Step (redirect from Nextstep)
    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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    later renamed OS X and then macOS, with the acquisition of NeXT's NeXTSTEP in 1997. NeXTSTEP used a hybrid kernel that combined the Mach 2.5 kernel developed...
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  • The NeXT character set (often aliased as NeXTSTEP encoding vector, WE8NEXTSTEP or next-multinational) was used by the NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP operating systems...
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  • and 68882 floating-point coprocessor, with a clock speed of 25 MHz. Its NeXTSTEP operating system is based on the Mach microkernel and BSD-derived Unix...
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    GNUstep (category NeXT)
    the same as the roots of Cocoa: NeXTSTEP and OpenStep. GNUstep thus predates Cocoa, which emerged when Apple acquired NeXT's technology and incorporated...
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    Manager (SetAnimatedThemeCursor). NeXTStep 1.0 used a monochrome icon resembling a spinning magneto-optical disk. Some NeXT computers included an optical...
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  • Menu bar (section NeXTstep)
    closed-Apple and open-Apple keys of later Apple II keyboards. The NeXTstep OS for the NeXT machines would display a "menu palette", by default at the top...
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  • aspects of NeXT's NeXTSTEP operating system (later, since version 4.0, known as OPENSTEP), first released in 1989. After Apple bought NeXT in 1996, it...
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  • was developed at NeXT in the late 1980s, previously called OPENSTEP and NEXTSTEP. Rhapsody was targeted to developers for a transition period between the...
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    workstation runs the NeXTSTEP operating system and was launched with a $7,995 (equivalent to about $19,000 in 2023) list price. The NeXTcube is the successor...
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  • Objective-C (category NeXT)
    early 1980s, it was selected by NeXT for its NeXTSTEP operating system. Due to Apple macOS’s direct lineage from NeXTSTEP, Objective-C was the standard...
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    WorldWideWeb (category NeXTSTEP software)
    and for the NeXTSTEP platform, the program uses many of NeXTSTEP's components – WorldWideWeb's layout engine was built around NeXTSTEP's Text class. WorldWideWeb...
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    NeXTstation is a high-end workstation computer developed, manufactured and sold by NeXT from 1990 until 1993. It runs the NeXTSTEP operating system. The...
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    OpenStep (category NeXT)
    to write code that could run on multiple operating systems, including NeXTSTEP, Windows NT, and various Unix-based systems. It has influenced the development...
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  • is an open-source word processor and text editor, first featured in NeXT's NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. TextEdit has support for formatted text, justification...
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    a co-founder of Apple Inc., started NeXT Computer Inc., which developed the NeXTSTEP operating system. NeXTSTEP would later be acquired by Apple Inc...
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  • distribute a program for NeXTStep running on different architectures. It was also possible to create libraries (e.g. using NeXTStep's libtool) with different...
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  • Property list (category NeXT)
    In the macOS, iOS, NeXTSTEP, and GNUstep programming frameworks, property list files are files that store serialized objects. Property list files use the...
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  • to 2001. Its underlying architecture came from NeXT's NeXTSTEP, as a result of Apple's acquisition of NeXT, which also brought Steve Jobs back to Apple...
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    has been characterized as reproducing "the elegant look and feel of the NeXTSTEP GUI" and is noted as "easy to configure and easy to use." A graphical tool...
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  • object-oriented operating system NeXTSTEP had a more lasting legacy as it eventually became the basis for Mac OS X. NeXTSTEP was based on the Mach kernel...
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  • Apple Mail (redirect from NeXTMail)
    Mail grew out of NeXTMail, which was originally developed by NeXT as part of its NeXTSTEP operating system, after Apple's acquisition of NeXT in 1997. The...
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    Windows NT, and NeXT's NeXTSTEP, eventually choosing the last. Apple acquired NeXT on December 20, 1996, returning its co-founder, Steve Jobs. NeXT had developed...
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    included in the macOS operating system by Apple. Terminal originated in NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, the predecessor operating systems of macOS. As a terminal...
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    NetBoot, the QuickTime Streaming Server, components carried over from NeXTSTEP, and the "Blue Box" environment (which allows a Mac OS 8.5 session to be...
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  • Avie Tevanian (category NeXT)
    known as the Mach Kernel). He leveraged that work at NeXT Inc. as the foundation of the NeXTSTEP operating system. He was senior vice president of software...
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  • between 1997 and 2001 after Apple's purchase of NeXT. It brought an entirely new architecture based on NeXTSTEP, a Unix system, that eliminated many of the...
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