NeXTSTEP Operating System Support for HP 9000 PA-RISC Workstations in 1994 Release
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Summary
The article discusses NeXTSTEP, a Unix operating system developed by NeXT in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and its support for HP 9000 PA-RISC workstations in the 1994 release 3.3. This was part of NeXT's strategy to expand their operating system to other hardware platforms after discontinuing their custom NeXT computers. The article covers the technical aspects of NeXTSTEP, including its Mach microkernel architecture, advanced graphical user interface, and the collaboration between HP and NeXT to bring the OS to PA-RISC systems.
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NeXTSTEP supports several 32-bit HP 9000 PA-RISC workstations in release 3.3 from 1994, for which HP and NeXT had high hopes.
This was an effort to open up the NeXT operating system to other hardware platforms after NeXT stopped designing its own custom NeXT computers.
Introduced in 1989 by NeXT, NeXTSTEP featured development and user environments, an unique GUI and the Display Post
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