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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.