NeXTStep 3.x

NeXTSTEP, from NeXT Computers headed by Steve Jobs, is a Unix based operating system designed to run on m68K NeXT workstations. It later became the basis for OS X, with APIs and concepts preserved today.

This OS offered many unique things, in addition to the unique hardware it originally ran on. It had Interface Builder, a tool to create UIs with little to no code. To make building the UIs and code easier, it had robust database support to bind data with. Objective-C was the preferred programming language, a hybrid of C and Smalltalk. Underneath was a Mach microkernel and a 4.2BSD subsystem.



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Release notes

NeXTSTEP 3.x saw many major changes. 3.0 is only for NeXT 68k hardware, but 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 also support Intel 32-bit x86 hardware. NeXTSTEP 3.3 was the final release under the NeXTSTEP name, and the most popular on NeXT hardware.

Installation instructions

Note: The 3.x CDs are in BSD Unix format rather than standard ISO. Many CD utilities will not directly open these images, requiring you to write them as "raw" data.

Product type
OS
Vendor
NeXT
Release date
1992
Minimum CPU
68030, 486, Sparc, HPPA
User interface
GUI
Platform
Unix
Download count
24 (13 for release)

Downloads

Download name Version Language Architecture File size Downloads
NeXT NEXTSTEP 3.1 (CD) [M68K][x86] 3.1 English 230MB 0
NeXT NEXTSTEP 3.3 (CD) [M68K][x86] 3.3 English 154.51MB 6
NeXT NeXTSTEP 3.2 (CD) [M68K][x86] 3.2 English 171.02MB 3
NeXT NeXTSTEP 3.3.4.17 [Sun SPARC, HP PARISC] 3.3.4.17 for Sparc and PARISC English 155.64MB 0
NextStep Nebula 1.0 Intel (August 1993) (ISO) Nebula 1.0 Intel English 144.32MB 1
Nextstep 3.0 HD Image With Previous 3.0 English 25.5MB 1
Nextstep 3.1 HD Image With Previous 3.1 English 38.45MB 0
Nextstep 3.2 HD Image With Previous 3.2 English 39.16MB 0
Nextstep 3.3 HD Image With Previous 3.3 English 60.51MB 2

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