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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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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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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...
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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...
- Kit, or just
Foundation for short, is an Objective-C
framework in the
OpenStep specification described by NeXT Computer, Inc.. It
provides basic classes...
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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";...
- 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...
