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Inside Mac OS X Public Beta, Part II
News Installation is far simpler than NeXTstep, sources said: Using a step-by-step interface familiar to Mac users, the installation application and the Setup Assistant mimic the Mac OS installation procedure.
[September 12, 2000, 8:08]
Macworld: Next-based OS to ship inside 12 months
News In a two and a half hour speech at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco Amelio said that a new version of the Mac OS based on the NextStep operating system will be available inside twelve months. Codenamed Rhapsody, the software will run on both...
[January 8, 1997, 10:31]
Mac OS X beta's grab bag of apps
News Chess: Visually similar to the Chess application included in NextStep, this is a front end for the familiar (to some) gnuchess. Some of the applications are new versions of software already available in Mac OS 9, some are ports of NeXTStep...
[September 13, 2000, 9:29]
Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test
Talkback Jobs has been down that great software on any hardware road with Nextstep too, which I remember as a thing of beauty, and it didn't go anywhere for him then. And remember, that Mac OS X is NeXTstep as well.
[November 11, 2005, 16:36]
Apple revs Mac OS Server update
News It was aimed at server administrators and developers -- both those who were interested in creating software for Apple's next-generation operating system, and those who had long worked with NextStep, the OS progenitor of all upcoming flavors of OS X.
[January 19, 2001, 10:55]
AfterStep
Downloads Based on the NeXTSTEP look and feel, it has evolved into its own creature with multiple workspaces, themes and advanced options. AfterStep is an advanced, use to use and configure window manager.
[September 9, 2001, 8:00]
Spy
Downloads Spy is the OS X port of the NEXTSTEP application of the same name which serves as a replacement for Apple's Console.app. Source code is provided (BSD license).
[November 19, 2002, 7:00]
ToyViewer
Downloads ToyViewer is an image viewer, which was developed originally on NeXTstep and then OPENSTEP. Currently it is for Mac OS X (Cocoa). ToyViewer has simple editing functions and filter services to other applications.
[November 17, 2009, 19:29]
StormView
Downloads It is a MacOS X port of a screensaver module for NeXTSTEP written by Ali Ozer and Sam Streeper. StormView.saver is a screensaver module for MacOS X. It shows plenty of the flying fragments blown up by the storms.
[May 22, 2001, 8:00]
RuniX
Downloads Classic contains the original set of puzzles that came with the NEXTSTEP game "AcChen". RuniX is a tile matching game, but with a twist! Of course, the tiles must be the same design in order to match them and remove them from the game.
[January 7, 2003, 7:00]
MarbleX
Downloads MarbleX is an all-new, Mac OS X only, version of one of the most popular arcade games on NeXTSTEP! Dozens of people loved playing the game of falling marble triads, now millions can play MarbleX. A deceptively simple game play universe allows...
[February 21, 2003, 7:00]
StepMenus
Downloads StepMenus gives all Cocoa applications in OS X a floating main menu in the spirit and style of NeXTSTEP. No longer do you have to switch your attention to a different monitor to access the application's menu, now you can place it wherever is...
[March 20, 2005, 7:00]
Microsoft to pour money into Apple
News Although the pair fought in the courts over rights to GUI technology patents, Microsoft still gets a significant revenue stream from Macintosh applications and was quick to endorse Apple's plans for Rhapsody, a next-generation operating system...
[August 6, 1997, 13:49]
Apple expo: Users get OS X, but fears remain
News As promised, Apple made available the public beta of OS X, the successor to OS 9 based on a combination of NeXT's NextStep and Free BSD Unix. Steve Jobs didn't disappoint Macintosh fans on the opening day of Apple Expo in Paris Wednesday.
[September 13, 2000, 14:57]
Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test
Talkback Jobs has been down that great software on any hardware road with Nextstep too, which I remember as a thing of beauty, and it didn't go anywhere for him then. Just an ordinary user here, but I kind of think Jobs is right to keep it on the Apple...
[November 9, 2005, 17:16]
Apple's Tiger draws Mac developer's ire
News Apple, for its part, maintains that Dashboard is the company's own creation, noting that Widgets have long been a part of Mac OS X and the NextStep OS. Apple is predicting that rivals will mimic Mac OS X Tiger, but one developer says it's the new...
[June 29, 2004, 9:10]
Ten failures that went down in IT history
Comment And the NeXTStep did eventually become the foundation for OS X. Some of the biggest disasters in IT were simply good ideas gone wrong, but others were ill-advised to begin with, says Jack Wallen. I recently offered a list of events that I believe...
[November 20, 2009, 11:42]
Kewney: Rumours say Motorola to drop PowerPC
News Apparently, Steve Jobs revealed that his own long-term ambitions for Apple involved dropping the current range of desktop personal systems, and switching over to Intel-based servers (running NextStep-derived OS) plus network computers on the desktop.
[September 5, 1997, 15:45]
Apple chief to outline Next plans tomorrow
News Jobs said the NextStep OS would enable Apple to "leapfrog existing platforms, and fuel Apple and the industry copy cats for the next ten years and beyond". Apple boss Gilbert Amelio will tomorrow fill in at least some of the gaps that have been...
[January 6, 1997, 11:39]
Images: The evolution of Windows 7
News This even predates the NextStep OS on which the dock is based by two years. In a presentation at last week's Mix 09 event in Las Vegas, Microsoft designer Stephan Hoefnagels traced the evolution of the company's new Windows 7 operating system.
[March 26, 2009, 15:42]
