< 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 ".
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See also: GNUStep .
(2003-05-23)