So where exactly IS NeXT Step in the mix?

Post #70,497 by cwbrenn 12/23/02 10:05:25 AM Reply	So where exactly IS NeXT Step in the mix? I used NextStep for a bit when I was a government contractor... It was ok, but the UI, while attractive, seemed somewhat superfluous. But my question is, where exactly will you find NeXT Step in OSX? You've got "Darwin" at the core, which is a BSD variant, so I was led to believe. You've got the OS X UI at the top, which is very little like NeXT Step's UI (not that I can recall, at any rate. The toolbar that NeXT Step had was nothing like that odd bouncing thing at the bottom of the OS X desktop). The display technology is different... ... I'm not saying NeXT Step isn't there, I'm just saying I don't know where it is, exactly. Is it some kind of middle layer? "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #70,521 by tjsinclair 12/23/02 12:54:44 PM Reply	I believe it's the Cocoa API + Objective C Tom Sinclair "Everybody is someone else's weirdo." - E. Dijkstra
Post #70,532 by rickmoen 12/23/02 3:25:34 PM Reply	As I said. cwbrenn wrote: So where exactly IS NeXT Step in the mix? Right in the middle and throughout. You've got "Darwin" at the core, which is a BSD variant, so I was led to believe. That's the bulk of NeXTSTep, which was an early BSD fork. You've got the OS X UI at the top, which is very little like NeXT Step's UI. Yes, they hid it very thoroughly under all the tacky, glossy makeover stuff. One can find instructions on the Net to restore as much as possible of the original classic desktop appearance, but I don't have hyperlinks handy. The toolbar that NeXT Step had was nothing like that odd bouncing thing at the bottom of the OS X desktop). That's the NeXTStep Wharf, badly mangled and junked up at Apple's hands. The display technology is different. Not very. A PDF stream is really just a slightly rearranged, compressed PostScript stream. As mentioned, the change was made because of the stark difference in Adobe's patent-licensing terms. Rick Moen rick@linuxmafia.com If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already.
Post #70,547 by tuberculosis 12/23/02 5:40:10 PM Reply	Its the GUI lib Basically - and the rest of the standard API - file system interfaces, network, etc, basically the ObjectiveC standard lib plus windowing and access to OS facilities. You know, the GUI. I am out of the country for the duration of the Bush administration. Please leave a message and I'll get back to you when democracy returns.

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