|  |  |  |  | 85 | NeXT, Inc. is founded
|  |  | 12 Oct 88 | NeXTSTEP 0.8 is released
|  |  | 18 Sep 89 | NeXTSTEP 1.0 is released
|  |  | 18 Sep 90 | NeXTSTEP 2.0 is released |  |  | 25 Mar 91 | NeXTSTEP 2.1 is released
|  |  | Sep 92 | NeXTSTEP 3.0 is released |  |  | 25 May 93 | NeXTSTEP 3.1 is released |  |  | Oct 93 | NeXTSTEP 3.2 is released |  |  | Feb 95 | NeXTSTEP 3.3 is released
|  |  | 96 | Apple buys NeXT Software, Inc. in order to use NeXTSTEP as the foundation of its next Mac OS
|  |  | 22 Jul 96 | OPENSTEP 4.0 is released |  |  | Dec 96 | OPENSTEP 4.1 is released |  |  | Jan 97 | OPENSTEP 4.2 is released
|  |  | Sep 97 | Rhapsody is released |  |  | May 98 | Rhapsody Developer Release 2 is released |  |
|  |
| |
|