The OS, NeXTStep, would be used as the foundation for OS X when Steve returned to Apple and threw out the entire MacOS codebase due to bugs, legacy cruft, and laughable security.
It’s why macOS has the Dock of icons across the edge of the screen to this day.
And the finder window layout with the successive columns of listings. I remember that on NeXT workstations in 1993. That’s around the first time I visited a world wide website.
Last I checked, the OSX native libraries use ObjectiveC and have system library calls prefixed with ns_. So, “used as the foundation” is under-selling it a bit. I think they just re-skinned the NextStep GUI to make it resemble OS9 and called it a day.
The OS, NeXTStep, would be used as the foundation for OS X when Steve returned to Apple and threw out the entire MacOS codebase due to bugs, legacy cruft, and laughable security.
It’s why macOS has the Dock of icons across the edge of the screen to this day.
And the finder window layout with the successive columns of listings. I remember that on NeXT workstations in 1993. That’s around the first time I visited a world wide website.
Maybe he shouldn’t have.
Last I checked, the OSX native libraries use ObjectiveC and have system library calls prefixed with
ns_. So, “used as the foundation” is under-selling it a bit. I think they just re-skinned the NextStep GUI to make it resemble OS9 and called it a day.