OpenStep
Sign in to saveOpenStep is an object-oriented application programming interface (API) specification developed by NeXT. It provides a framework for building graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and developing software applications. OpenStep was designed to be platform-independent, allowing developers to write code that could run on multiple operating systems, including NeXTSTEP, Windows NT, and various Unix-based systems. It has influenced the development of other GUI frameworks, such as Cocoa for macOS, and GNUstep.
Key facts
- Software.logo
- NeXT logo.svg
- Software.caption
- OpenStep's desktop and Workspace Manager
- Software.developer
- NeXT, Sun Microsystems
- Software.programming language
- Objective-C
- Software.operating system
- Solaris; Windows NT; Unix-like operating systems with the Mach kernel
- Software.platform
- IA-32, PA-RISC, SPARC
- Software.language
- English
- Software.genre
- Application programming interface
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.gnustep.org/resources/OpenStepSpec/OpenStepSpec.html
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13 sectionsContents
- History
- Description
- Building on OpenStep
- Implementations
- OPENSTEP for Mach
- Solaris OpenStep
- OPENSTEP Enterprise
- Rhapsody, Mac OS X Server 1.0
- Darwin, Mac OS X 10.0 and later
- GNUstep
- See also
- References
- External links
OpenStep is an object-oriented application programming interface (API) specification developed by NeXT. It provides a framework for building graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and developing software applications. OpenStep was designed to be platform-independent, allowing developers to write code that could run on multiple operating systems, including NeXTSTEP, Windows NT, and various Unix-based systems. It has influenced the development of other GUI frameworks, such as Cocoa for macOS, and GNUstep.
OpenStep was principally developed by NeXT and Sun Microsystems, to allow advanced application development on Sun's operating systems, specifically Solaris. NeXT produced a version of OpenStep for its own Mach-based Unix OS, stylized in all capital letters as OPENSTEP. The software libraries that shipped with OPENSTEP are a superset of the original OpenStep specification, including many features from the original NeXTSTEP.