from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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)