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.

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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