It was developed by NeXT Computer in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was initially used for its range of proprietary workstation computers such as the NeXTcube.
The kits made the system particularly interesting to custom application programmers, and NeXTSTEP had a long history in the financial programming community. ==History== A preview release of NeXTSTEP (version 0.8) was shown with the launch of the NeXT Computer on October 12, 1988.
The first full release, NeXTSTEP 1.0, shipped on September 18, 1989.
It was developed by NeXT Computer in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was initially used for its range of proprietary workstation computers such as the NeXTcube.
The basic layout options of HTML 1.0 and 2.0 are attributable to those features available in NeXT's Text class. In the 1990s, the pioneering PC games Doom (with its WAD level editor), Doom II, and Quake (with its respective level editor) were developed by id Software on NeXT machines.
The last version, 3.3, was released in early 1995, by which time it ran on not only the Motorola 68000 family processors used in NeXT computers, but also on Intel x86, Sun SPARC, and HP PA-RISC-based systems. NeXTSTEP was later modified to separate the underlying operating system from the higher-level object libraries.
It was also the platform on which Tim Berners-Lee created the first web browser, and on which id Software developed the video games Doom and Quake. In 1996, NeXT was acquired by Apple Computer.
NeXT's implementation is called "OPENSTEP for Mach" and its first release (4.0) superseded NeXTSTEP 3.3 on NeXT, Sun, and Intel IA-32 systems. Following an announcement on December 20, 1996, Apple Computer acquired NeXT on February 4, 1997, for $429 million.
NeXT's implementation is called "OPENSTEP for Mach" and its first release (4.0) superseded NeXTSTEP 3.3 on NeXT, Sun, and Intel IA-32 systems. Following an announcement on December 20, 1996, Apple Computer acquired NeXT on February 4, 1997, for $429 million.
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