<company> The company founded by Steve Jobs [in ?] following
his involuntary departure from Apple Computer, Inc.. NeXT
produced both the hardware and operating system
(NEXTSTEP). They changed their name to "NeXT Software" when
they stopped making hardware and released NEXTSTEP For Intel
processors. The company was bought by Apple in 1997(?).
(1999-11-25)
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Next Program Counter definition
<architecture> (nPC) A register in a CPU that contains the
address of the instruction to be executed next.
(2000-07-12)
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NEXTSTEP definition
<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.
Peanuts.
See also: GNUStep.
(2003-05-23)
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