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<WorkerII> tarzeau: I don't quite understand .. there is 3 steps .. First was
proprietary NeXT STeP, I guess. Then GNUstep? Then OSI repsonse
OpenStep ?
<Deek> hmm?
<Deek> NeXTStep was the start. Later NeXT Computer, trying to broaden the
acceptance of their object tech, tried licensing it to IBM and others
as NextStep (while keeping their OS still, with the same capitalization
NeXTStep). Later they renamed the OS NeXTSTEP, but still the object
technology that they still hoped to license to other vendors was called
NextStep. About this time, some people wanted to port a program from
NeXT to, I believe, Sol
<Deek> aris, writing a lib called libobjcX which developed into GNUstep.
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<Deek> Through this time frame, NeXT developed a primeval Foundation Kit, and
the Enterprise Objects Framework (EOF) to replace their aging Database
Kit (dbkit). Sun was really interested in EOF, and through this
interest NeXT (now NeXT Software) managed to get them interested in an
updated version of their tech.
<tarzeau> WorkerII: i'd install gnustep gnustep-devel gnustep-games
<Deek> Together in October 1994, NeXT Software and Sun Microsystems published
the OpenStep specification, which was co-designed but at this point not
implemented by anyone.
<Deek> The next versions of Solaris and NeXTSTEP, renamed to OPENSTEP 4.0,
contained the new system.
<Deek> There are a TON of names for the damn things.
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<tarzeau> OMG gnustep-back 0.9.6 is there!
<Deek> However, OpenStep is not compatible with NextStep in either
direction. OpenStep was a brand-new thing, only based loosely on the
old "appkit" library.
<tarzeau> -gui 0.9.6 can't be far
<Deek> WorkerII: Enough (too much?) history? :)
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<Deek> Anyway, in '96 Apple Computer merged with NeXT Software with Apple
paying $400 million in cash (and, IIRC, stock). Soon after, NeXT people
took over key positions inside Apple, thus completing the "inverse
takeover". Apple released the in-progress OPENSTEP v4.2 as a "Prelude
to Rhapsody".
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<WorkerII> Deek: Still reading.
<Deek> Through all this, the OS itself remained a pretty-crappy BSD with a
nice, but rather different, GUI sitting on top of it. The BSD itself
was bolted into Mach, which was almost used as nothing but a bootloader.
<WorkerII> Lets f. this up on a wiki?
<Deek> Go ahead.
<Deek> there's one at wiki.gnustep.org :)
<WorkerII> Need login or?
<Deek> hell if I know.

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