NEXTSTEP

operating system The original multitasking operatingsystem 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".

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See also: GNUStep.

(2003-05-23)