NeXTSTEP is the Operating system computers designed by NeXT, based on a Micro-noyau Mach, an environment 4.3 BSD and an effective graphical interface founded on the Display PostScript.

NeXTSTEP was conceived at the beginning to function on the machines of NeXT (NeXTCube, NeXTStation N&B and color) but as this material was sold badly, NeXT decided to carry its Operating system on the platforms Sparc, PA-RISC and X86.

It is on a machine NeXT under NeXTSTEP that Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web whereas he worked with CERN.

Following the repurchase of NeXT by Apple in 1996, NeXTSTEP became the basic core of Mac OS to give Mac OS X.

See too

• GNUstep
• OPENSTEP
• Rhapsody (operating system)

External bonds

• More infos on NeXT (site of Eric Lévénez)

Simple: NEXTSTEP