Sun briefly supported OpenStep on Solaris, while NeXT released a new version of their OS-confusingly named OPENSTEP-which was made available for a number of architectures, including x86. The Application Kits provided a GUI toolkit and associated services.The Foundation Kit provided low-level libraries, such as strings, associative arrays, and file I/O.This was a tidied-up version of the NeXT APIs, intended for cross-platform development.
(The author, Tim Berners-Lee, claimed that his browser wouldn’t have been possible without NeXTStep’s superb development environment.) Other software developed on NeXT machines included Doom.Ī few years later, in 1993, NeXT partnered with Sun to produce the OpenStep specification. The first web browser, WorldWideWeb (later renamed to Nexus) was developed on it. In spite of being available initially only on the $6,500 NeXT Cube, NeXTStep was incredibly influential. In 1989, the operating system for this machine, named NeXTStep, was released. After leaving Apple, Steve Jobs created a new company, NeXT, with the aim of producing the perfect computer.
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