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OpenStep, the Glossary

OpenStep is an object-oriented application programming interface (API) specification developed by NeXT.^[1]

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API

An is a way for two or more computer programs or components to communicate with each other. OpenStep and API are application programming interfaces.

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AppKit

AppKit (formally Application Kit) is a graphical user interface toolkit. OpenStep and AppKit are application programming interfaces and NeXT.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

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Bud Tribble

Guy L. "Bud" Tribble is a software technologist known for his work on the original Apple Macintosh.

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C standard library

The C standard library or libc is the standard library for the C programming language, as specified in the ISO C standard.

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Cairo (operating system)

Cairo was the codename for a project at Microsoft from 1991 to 1996.

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Carbon was one of two primary C-based application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Apple for the macOS (formerly Mac OS X and OS X) operating system. OpenStep and Carbon (API) are macOS APIs.

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Class (computer programming)

In object-oriented programming, a class defines the shared aspects of objects created from the class.

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Classic Mac OS

Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9.

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Cocoa (API)

Cocoa is Apple's native object-oriented application programming interface (API) for its desktop operating system macOS. OpenStep and Cocoa (API) are macOS APIs.

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ColorSync

ColorSync is Apple Inc.'s color management API for the Mac OS and Mac OS X Operating Systems. OpenStep and ColorSync are macOS APIs.

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Common Object Request Broker Architecture

The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a standard defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) designed to facilitate the communication of systems that are deployed on diverse platforms.

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Component Object Model

Component Object Model (COM) is a binary-interface technology for software components from Microsoft that enables using objects in a language-neutral way between different programming languages, programming contexts, processes and machines.

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Copland (operating system)

Copland is an operating system developed by Apple for Macintosh computers between 1994 and 1996 but never commercially released.

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Display PostScript

Display PostScript (or DPS) is a 2D graphics engine system for computers that uses the PostScript (PS) imaging model and language (originally developed for computer printing) to generate on-screen graphics. OpenStep and Display PostScript are NeXT.

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Distributed object communication

In a distributed computing environment, distributed object communication realizes communication between distributed objects.

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Distributed Objects Everywhere

Distributed Objects Everywhere (DOE) was a long-running Sun Microsystems project to build a distributed computing environment based on the CORBA system in the 'back end' and OpenStep as the user interface. OpenStep and distributed Objects Everywhere are application programming interfaces.

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Dock (macOS)

The Dock is a prominent feature of the graphical user interface of macOS. OpenStep and Dock (macOS) are NeXT.

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Endianness

''Gulliver's Travels'' by Jonathan Swift, the novel from which the term was coined In computing, endianness is the order in which bytes within a word of digital data are transmitted over a data communication medium or addressed (by rising addresses) in computer memory, counting only byte significance compared to earliness.

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Enterprise Objects Framework

The Enterprise Objects Framework, or simply EOF, was introduced by NeXT in 1994 as a pioneering object-relational mapping product for its NeXTSTEP and OpenStep development platforms. OpenStep and Enterprise Objects Framework are NeXT.

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Fat binary

A fat binary (or multiarchitecture binary) is a computer executable program or library which has been expanded (or "fattened") with code native to multiple instruction sets which can consequently be run on multiple processor types.

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Free software

Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.

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GNUstep

GNUstep is a free software implementation of the Cocoa (formerly OpenStep) Objective-C frameworks, widget toolkit, and application development tools for Unix-like operating systems and Microsoft Windows. OpenStep and GNUstep are NeXT.

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Graphical user interface

A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation.

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Hewlett-Packard

The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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IA-32

IA-32 (short for "Intel Architecture, 32-bit", commonly called i386) is the 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture, designed by Intel and first implemented in the 80386 microprocessor in 1985.

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IBM PC–compatible

IBM PC–compatible computers are technically similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT, all from computer giant IBM, that are able to use the same software and expansion cards.

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IOS

iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system developed by Apple exclusively for its smartphones.

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IPad

The iPad is a brand of iOS- and iPadOS-based tablet computers that are developed by Apple, first introduced on January 27, 2010.

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IPhone

The iPhone is a smartphone produced by Apple that uses Apple's own iOS mobile operating system.

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Java (programming language)

Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.

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Library (computing)

In computer science, a library is a collection of read-only resources that is leveraged during software development to implement a computer program.

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Mac (computer)

Mac, short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple.

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Mac OS 8

Mac OS 8 is the eighth major release of the classic Mac OS operating system for Macintosh computers, released by Apple Computer on July 26, 1997.

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Mac OS X Server

Mac OS X Server is a series of discontinued Unix-like server operating systems developed by Apple Inc. based on macOS.

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Mac OS X Server 1.0

Mac OS X Server 1.0 is an operating system developed by Apple, Inc. released on March 16, 1999.

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Mach (kernel)

Mach is a kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University by Richard Rashid and Avie Tevanian to support operating system research, primarily distributed and parallel computing.

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MacOS

macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001. OpenStep and MacOS are Berkeley Software Distribution.

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Memory management

Memory management is a form of resource management applied to computer memory.

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Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS and iPadOS.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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Motorola 68000 series

The Motorola 68000 series (also known as 680x0, m68000, m68k, or 68k) is a family of 32-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) microprocessors.

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NeWS

NeWS (Network extensible Window System) is a discontinued windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems in the mid-1980s.

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NeXT, Inc. (later NeXT Computer, Inc. and NeXT Software, Inc.) was an American technology company headquartered in Redwood City, California that specialized in computer workstations for higher education and business markets, and later developed web software.

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NeXT character set

The NeXT character set (often aliased as NeXTSTEP encoding vector, WE8NEXTSTEP or next-multinational) was used by the NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP operating systems on NeXT workstations beginning in 1988. OpenStep and NeXT character set are NeXT.

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NeXTSTEP

NeXTSTEP is a discontinued object-oriented, multitasking operating system based on the Mach kernel and the UNIX-derived BSD. OpenStep and NeXTSTEP are Berkeley Software Distribution and NeXT.

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Object-oriented programming

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of objects, which can contain data and code: data in the form of fields (often known as attributes or properties), and code in the form of procedures (often known as methods).

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Object–relational mapping

Object–relational mapping (ORM, O/RM, and O/R mapping tool) in computer science is a programming technique for converting data between a relational database and the heap of an object-oriented programming language.

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Objective-C

Objective-C is a high-level general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language. OpenStep and Objective-C are NeXT.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.

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Oracle Solaris

Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

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PA-RISC

Precision Architecture RISC (PA-RISC) or Hewlett Packard Precision Architecture (HP/PA or simply HPPA), is a general purpose computer instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Hewlett-Packard from the 1980s until the 2000s.

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Portable Distributed Objects

Portable Distributed Objects (PDO) is an application programming interface (API) for creating object-oriented code that can be executed remotely on a network of computers. OpenStep and Portable Distributed Objects are macOS APIs and NeXT.

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Quartz (graphics layer)

In Apple's macOS operating system, Quartz is the Quartz 2D and Quartz Compositor part of the Core Graphics framework.

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QuickTime

QuickTime is a discontinued extensible multimedia architecture created by Apple, which supports playing, streaming, encoding, and transcoding a variety of digital media formats. OpenStep and QuickTime are macOS APIs.

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Rhapsody (operating system)

Rhapsody is an operating system that was developed by Apple Computer after its purchase of NeXT in the late 1990s. OpenStep and Rhapsody (operating system) are Berkeley Software Distribution.

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Scott McNealy

Scott McNealy (born November 13, 1954) is an American businessman.

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Shelf (computing)

The Shelf is an interface feature in NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, and is used as a repository to store links to commonly used files, directories and programs, and as a temporary "holding" place to move/copy files and directories around in the file system hierarchy. OpenStep and Shelf (computing) are NeXT.

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Software framework

In computer programming, a software framework is an abstraction in which software, providing generic functionality, can be selectively changed by additional user-written code, thus providing application-specific software.

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SPARC

SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

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Standalone program

A standalone program, also known as a freestanding program, is a computer program that does not load any external module, library function or program and that is designed to boot with the bootstrap procedure of the target processor – it runs on bare metal.

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Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC microprocessors.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep

Also known as OPENSTEP Enterprise, OPENSTEP/Mach.

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OpenStep, the Glossary

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Berkeley Software Distribution

MacOS APIs

NeXT

Solaris software

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