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An innovative GUI originating on NeXT machines, then ported to other platforms.
Available from 1988 to 1998. Developed by
NeXT
and
Apple
.
1985
NeXT, Inc. is founded
1988
NeXTSTEP 0.8
1989
NeXTSTEP 1.0
1990
NeXTSTEP 2.0
1992
NeXTSTEP 3.0
1996
Apple buys NeXT Software, Inc. in order to use NeXTSTEP as the foundation of its next Mac OS
OPENSTEP 4.0
(41 screenshots)
1997
Rhapsody
(41 screenshots)
“Lisa lives”
from Byte 1988
“The Mac interface: Showing its age”
from Byte 1989
“A guide to GUIs”
from Byte 1989
“One thousand square pixels of canvas”
by Marcin Wichary, 2003
22
icons
2
quotes
3
trivia
2
splashes
6
links
Rhapsody DR2
1997’s advertisement of future of Mac OS, including Tempo and Rhapsody
“Designing Visual Interfaces”
“The Cross-GUI Handbook”
Copyright © 2002-2006
Marcin Wichary
, unless stated otherwise.