Computing Dictionary
NEXTSTEP definition
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)
