NeXTSTEP

Key facts

OS.name

NeXTSTEP

OS.logo

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OS.screenshot

NeXTSTEP desktop.png

OS.caption

NeXTSTEP graphical user interface

OS.developer

NeXT

OS.family

Unix (4.3BSD-Tahoe)

OS.working_state

Historic as original code base for Darwin, which was the base for macOS, which in turn was the base of iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and tvOS

OS.source_model

Closed source with some open-source components

OS.latest_release_version

3.3

OS.latest_preview_version

4.2 Pre-release 2

OS.latest_preview_date

September 1997

OS.marketing_target

Enterprise, academia

OS.prog_language

C, Objective-C

OS.package_manager

Installer.app

OS.supported_platforms

Motorola 68030/68040, IA-32, SPARC, PA-RISC

OS.kernel_type

Hybrid (Mach, BSD)

OS.userland

BSD

OS.ui

Graphical

via Wikipedia infobox