nextstep

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nextstep - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  NEXTSTEP
  
     <operating system> The original multitasking operating system
      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".
  
     TjL's Pages (http://peak.org/~luomat/).
     Peanuts (http://peanuts.org/peanuts/NEXTSTEP/).
  
     See also: GNUStep.
  
     (2003-05-23)