Today in Tech – 1989

By Community Team

On this day in 1989 NeXTSTEP was first released. NeXTSTEP was an object-oriented, multitasking operating system based on UNIX. It was developed by NeXT Computer in the late 1980s to run on NeXT’s brand of computers, and was later ported to other computer architectures, such as the Intel x86.

Although it was relatively unsuccessful at the time, NeXTSTEP was quite ahead of its time as it brought together many advanced features– something that no other OS was able to do until almost 10 years later. It was the platform on which the first commercial electronic software distribution catalog Electronic AppWrapper was developed; the first web browser was created; and the iconic video game Doom was developed.

In 1997 Apple acquired NeXT Computer and upon the NeXTSTEP architecture built the Mac OS X. Today’s iOS, watchOS, tvOS and audioOS all descended from Mac OS X and NeXTSTEP.

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