Why “Nextstep” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
That is amazing to read. I never knew. I thought it was Workspace Manager, adapted to feel more Mac-like. There is even a clear line of descent: 1. The Rhapsody developer previe…
by lproven · Oct 31, 2026
I didn't mean that the 10.0 finder was a reskinned NeXT GUI file management application (as you point out, it clearly wasn't and was a huge thing that had a bunch of heritage co…
by walrus01 · Oct 31, 2026
Best example of how far BeOs fell short was that for a very long while it lacked printer drivers of any kind --- by contrast, not only did NeXTstep essentially get printing "for…
by WillAdams · Oct 30, 2026
Some former Be employees have commented here in the past saying that Apple made the right decision to buy Next and not Be from a technical perspective, as BeOS had poor code qua…
by ndiddy · Oct 30, 2026
I seem to recall years ago reading that the Cocoa (the NeXTstep derived API) menu code called into the Carbon (the classic Mac OS derived API) code to run stuff. But that was ar…
by fredoralive · Oct 30, 2026
Yes but mostly not. Modern MacOS is based off of NeXTSTEP OS from the NeXT acquisition, not classic.
by hassaanr · Oct 30, 2026
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Next Step or Nextstep may refer to:NeXTSTEP, a UNIX-based computer operating system developed by NeXT in the 1980s and 1990s OpenStep, an open platform version of NeXTSTEP originated by Sun Microsystems and NeXT Rhapsody, the Apple Macintosh NeXTSTEP/classic Mac OS hybrid predecessor to macOS Darwin, the open source version of macOS GNUstep, an open source version of NeXTSTEP originated by the GNU Organization Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP), a NASA program Next Step Tour, a 1999 tour by the British pop group Steps Nextstep (magazine), an American magazine for high school students Read more on Wikipedia