NEXTSTEP
     
         The original multitasking operating
        system that NeXT, Inc. developed to run on its proprietary
        NeXT computers (informally known as "black boxes").
        NEXTSTEP includes a specific graphical user interface, an
        interface builder, object-oriented application builder, and
        several "kits" of prebuilt software objects such as the
        Indexing Kit for databases.  This software runs on top of
        NeXT's version of the Mach operating system on NeXT,
        486, Pentium, HP-PA, and Sun SPARC computers.
     
        The official spelling changed from "NeXTstep" to "NeXTStep" to
        "NeXTSTEP", and finally "NEXTSTEP".
     
        The last release of NEXTSTEP was 3.3, which NeXT then
        developed into "OpenStep".
     
        TjL's Pages (http://www.peak.org/~luomat/).
        Peanuts (http://www.peanuts.org/peanuts/NEXTSTEP/).
     
        See also: GNUStep.
     
        (2003-05-23)