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NeXTSTEP

Proper noun

Meaning

NeXTSTEP

(computing) An object-oriented, multitasking operating system developed by NeXT Computer in the late 1980s and early 1990s, based on UNIX.

NextSTEP

(NASA, space science) Name for a set of projects that aim to develop technology for human spaceflight in deep space exploration.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Canon invested in NeXT with the condition that it would be able to use the NeXTSTEP environment with its own workstations, which would mean a greatly expanded market for the software. Source: Internet

BSD and its descendants main The first server for the World Wide Web ran on NeXTSTEP, based on BSD. Source: Internet

By mid-1993 the product was complete and version 3.1, also known as NeXTSTEP 486, was released. Source: Internet

GNUstep main GNUstep, a free software implementation of the NeXT libraries, began at the time of NeXTSTEP, predating OPENSTEP. Source: Internet

Four years later in 1993 NeXT announced it was ending production of the NeXTcube and porting NeXTSTEP to Intel processors. Source: Internet

History A preview release of NeXTSTEP (version 0.8) was shown with the launch of the NeXT Computer on October 12, 1988. Source: Internet

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