Shelf

Shelf is a detail of furniture for storing items. The same name is applied to various things that resemble a shelf in form or function: Continental shelf Ice shelf Ross Ice Shelf Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf The Shelf (an interface feature of NeXTSTEP) See also. Dr Eliot's Five Foot Shelf → Harvard Classics Shelf life Shelf registration Sulphur shelf ( a mushroom) Top shelf She ...

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The OpenStep API was created as the result of a 1993 collaboration between NeXT Computer and Sun Microsystems, allowing this cut-down version of NeXT's NeXTSTEP operating system object layers to be run on Sun's Solaris operating system (more specifically, Solaris on SPARC-based hardware). Most of the OpenStep effort was to strip away those portions of NeXTSTEP that depended on Mach or NeXT-specific hardware being present. This resulted in a smaller system that consisted primarily of Display PostScript, the Objective-C runtime and compilers, and the majority of the NeXTSTEP Objective-C libraries. Not included was the basic oper ...

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OpenStep, OpenStep - History, OpenStep - Description, OpenStep - Building On OpenStep, OpenStep - OPENSTEP, OpenStep - OPENSTEP Enterprise, OpenStep - Rhapsody, OpenStep - Mac OS X, OpenStep - GNUstep

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NeXTSTEP was a combination of several parts: a Unix-like operating system based on the Mach kernel, plus source code from UC Berkeley's BSD Unix Display PostScript and a windowing engine the Objective-C language and runtime an object-oriented (OO) application layer, including several "kits" development tools for the OO layers The key to NeXTSTEP's fame were the last three items. The toolkits offered incredible power, and were used to build all of the software on the machine. Dist ...

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NEXTSTEP, NEXTSTEP - Description, NEXTSTEP - Trivia

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NeXT also delivered an implementation running on top of Windows NT 4.0 called OPENSTEP Enterprise (often abbreviated OSE). This was an unintentional demonstration on the true nature of the portability of programs created under the OpenStep specification. Programs for OPENSTEP/Mach could be ported to OSE with little difficulty. This allowed their existing customer base to continue using their tools and applications, but running them inside the Windows system which many of them were in the process of switching to. Never a clean match fr ...

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OpenStep, OpenStep - History, OpenStep - Description, OpenStep - Building On OpenStep, OpenStep - OPENSTEP, OpenStep - OPENSTEP Enterprise, OpenStep - Rhapsody, OpenStep - Mac OS X, OpenStep - GNUstep

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NeXT's first operating system was NeXTSTEP, a sophisticated Mach-UNIX based operating system that was ported to run on several architectures (PA-RISC, SPARC, i386 and 68k). However, NeXT's new direction for NeXTSTEP was to free the operating system libraries from being tied to UNIX and becoming more device independent. NeXT completed an implementation of OpenStep on their existing Mach-based OS and called it OPENSTEP. It was, for all intents, NeXTSTEP 4.0, and still retained flagship NeXTSTEP technologies (such as DPS, UNIX und ...

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OpenStep, OpenStep - History, OpenStep - Description, OpenStep - Building On OpenStep, OpenStep - OPENSTEP, OpenStep - OPENSTEP Enterprise, OpenStep - Rhapsody, OpenStep - Mac OS X, OpenStep - GNUstep

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