NextStep 4 Release Date and Compatibility with IBM Thinkpad Computers

[MathematicalPhysicist]

does someone know if and when will the next version (4) as this guy typed here:
http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/
of NextStep is due to come?

and is it compatible to IBM Thinkpad computers (not necessarily the newest ones on the market)?

 

[ComputerGeek]

does someone know if and when will the next version (4) as this guy typed here:
http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/
of NextStep is due to come?
and is it compatible to IBM Thinkpad computers (not necessarily the newest ones on the market)?

dude... that webpage is from around 1996.

 

[-Job-]

From Wiki:

About the time of the 3.2 release NeXT teamed up with Sun Microsystems to develop OpenStep, a cross-platform standard and implementation (for Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and NeXT's version of the Mach kernel) based on NEXTSTEP 3.2.

On February 4, 1997 Apple Computer acquired NeXT, using the OpenStep operating system as the basis for Mac OS X. Mac OS X's OpenStep heritage can be seen in the Cocoa development environment, where the Objective-C library classes have "NS" prefixes. A free software implementation of the OpenStep standard, GNUstep, also exists.

 

[imabug]

does someone know if and when will the next version (4) as this guy typed here:
http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/
of NextStep is due to come?
and is it compatible to IBM Thinkpad computers (not necessarily the newest ones on the market)?

NeXTSTEP as an OS hasn't been around for nearly 10 years. I believe the last version was NS 4.2 and was only available for the i386 platform, up until Steve Jobs and NeXT were absorbed into Apple.

If you're looking for the functionality of NeXTSTEP, look at GNUstep

About the time of the 3.2 release NeXT teamed up with Sun Microsystems to develop OpenStep, a cross-platform standard and implementation (for Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and NeXT's version of the Mach kernel) based on NEXTSTEP 3.2.

On February 4, 1997 Apple Computer acquired NeXT, using the OpenStep operating system as the basis for Mac OS X. Mac OS X's OpenStep heritage can be seen in the Cocoa development environment, where the Objective-C library classes have "NS" prefixes. A free software implementation of the OpenStep standard, GNUstep, also exists.

Hmm, I seem to remember the history of NeXTSTEP a little differently. From my recollection, GnuStep was started as an open source project based on NeXTStep, and was primarily intended to mimic the cool revolutionary GUI and development environment for other *nix based OSes. NeXT did work with Sun to create a version of NeXTSTEP for Solaris. OpenStep evolved later out of the early GnuStep efforts

 

[MathematicalPhysicist]

dude... that webpage is from around 1996.

didn't notice that. :shy:
anyway, there this webpage http://www.blackholeinc.com/ that still sell the softwares & hardwares concerning openstep/nextstep.
but i still wonder if such os would be compatible with Thinkpad, or it's just my fantasy.

 

[imabug]

didn't notice that. :shy:
anyway, there this webpage http://www.blackholeinc.com/ that still sell the softwares & hardwares concerning openstep/nextstep.
but i still wonder if such os would be compatible with Thinkpad, or it's just my fantasy.

GNUStep running on Linux (or some other *nix variant) should run just fine on a Thinkpad. If you really want NeXTStep, you will want to make sure to get NeXTStep for Intel.