NeXT, Inc.
<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
<architecture> (nPC) A register in a CPU that contains the address of the
instruction to be executed next.
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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".
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Peanuts.
See also: GNUStep.
(2003-05-23)
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