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