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What (who) is OPENSTEP - definition

DEFUNCT OBJECT-ORIENTED APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE SPECIFICATION FOR A LEGACY OBJECT-ORIENTED OPERATING SYSTEM
OPENSTEP; OPENSTEP Enterprise; Openstep; OPENSTEP/Mach

OpenStep         
<operating system> An object-oriented {application programming interface} (API) derived from NEXTSTEP and proposed as an open standard by NeXT in 1994. OpenStep is the specification of the object kits of NEXTSTEP. OPENSTEP/Mach was an implementation of this specification. The original, OPENSTEP version 4.0, and really was NEXTSTEP 4. Rhapsody was the codename for Apple's Mac OS X Server, which is really NEXTSTEP 5 (it calls itself "kernel 5.3" at boot time). OpenStep was designed to be implemented independently of the computer's operating system, hardware, and user interface. The API for Rhapsody will be a superset of OpenStep's. When the OpenStep API is implemented for a specific platform and made into a product, it is written in uppercase, e.g. OPENSTEP Developer 4.2 for Mach, or OPENSTEP Enterprise for Windows NT and Windows 95. Versions of OPENSTEP exist for Windows 95/NT, Solaris, HP/UX, and Mach. (1999-11-25)
AppKit         
GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE TOOLKIT FOR MACOS APPLICATIONS
NSView; NSWindow; NSApplication; NSResponder; Appkit; Application Kit
<tool> A set of objects used by the application builder for the NEXTSTEP environment. (1995-03-13)

Wikipedia

OpenStep

OpenStep is a defunct object-oriented application programming interface (API) specification for a legacy object-oriented operating system, with the basic goal of offering a NeXTSTEP-like environment on non-NeXTSTEP operating systems. OpenStep was principally developed by NeXT with 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, stylized as OPENSTEP, as well as a version for Windows NT. The software libraries that shipped with OPENSTEP are a superset of the original OpenStep specification, including many features from the original NeXTSTEP.