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OpenStep is actually three things in one, a characteristic it inherited from its parent, NextStep. Originally, NextStep came as an integral part of a hardware-software system, so there wasn’t much need to define its precise nature. It could be regarded on one hand as the user interface, on another hand as the classes used by application programs, and on a third hand as the development tools, such as Interface Builder™, that developers used to create their applications. The name “NextStep” applied equally well to all three.
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Gervae, N., Clark, P. (1997). What Is OpenStep?. In: Developing Business Applications with OpenStep™. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1852-4_1
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