NeXTStep

The NeXTStep operating system was designed by a team led by Avie Tevanian, who was a member of the team that designed the Mach Microkernel at the Carnegie Mellon University alongside the BSD personality for it. NeXTStep is basically a version of the Mach kernel and a BSD personality with a layer of object-oriented user interface on top, that is implemented in Objective C.

Versions

 * 1989: NeXTStep 1.0
 * 1990: NeXTStep 2.0
 * 1991: NeXTStep 2.1
 * 1992: NeXTStep 3.0 - 4.3BSD-Reno


 * 1993: NeXTSTEP 3.1 - support for Intel 486, HP PA-RISC, SPARC
 * 1993: NeXTSTEP 3.2
 * 1995: NeXTSTEP 3.3

Publications

 * Alex D. Nghiem: NeXTSTEP Programming: Concepts and Applications - Prentice Hall PTR 1993, ISBN 0-13-605916-3

Links

 * http://www.nextcomputers.org/
 * How to Install NeXTStep 3.3 on Virtual PC