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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...
- 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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GNUstep is a free
software implementation of the
Cocoa (formerly
OpenStep) Objective-C frameworks,
widget toolkit, and
application development tools for...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
