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Install OPENSTEP, the successor of NeXTSTEP and the basis for Mac OS X, on a Virtualbox VM to see what it was like to use in the 90s. It's not particularly useful these days, but it is fun to see what it was like and how it influenced later software. Score points for authenticity by using it with an original NeXT keyboard and mouse! OPENSTEP starts with text-only installation, then proceeds to text environment in graphics mode, and later proceeds to black and white GUI.
Screen shots.
NeXTStep was the operating system created for the NeXT computer (a Motorola68K based machine), and later ported to to the Intel x86/PC platform whenNeXT shifted focus from being a hardware company to a software company.OPENSTEP is the descendant of NeXTStep, although technically 'OPENSTEP'refers to a set of portable APIs based on those of NeXTStep that NeXT madeavailable on Mach (The Unix-ish core that NeXTStep ran on), Windows NT,and Solaris. These screen shots are of OPENSTEP/Mach for x86.
OPENSTEP booting up.
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After logging in OPENSTEP starts the desktop and launches the WorkspaceManager, a kind of file manager.
Interestingly this is running on generic a pentium PC, rather than NeXThardware.
Like MacOS, OPENSTEP has a single menu for all running applications.
Printing with the citrix client receiver for mac os. Unlike MacOS the menu is in a draggable window that defaults to theupper left of the screen. When you click on a menu item it stays up, evenif you click on something else on the screen (besides another menu item).
There is a standard toolbar that is always present and always visibleon the right side of the screen. Items can be added and removed just bydragging their icon to or from the toolbar.
This user interface is designed for much higher resolutions (at least1024*768), at the 640*480 resolution used for these screen shots the menubar and toolbar always seem to be in the way.
The file viewer, by default, displays folders as a series of columns.Selecting a folder opens it in the next column. For deeper folders morecolumns are added and the horizontal scroll bar is used to move throughall the columns.
Saved by the bell font.
The workspace manager file viewer can display files as a set of columns(shown in previous screen shot), a detailed file list, or as icons.
An interesting thing about the NeXTStep / OPENSTEP user interface isthat the scroll bars are on the left. For left handed people this kindof makes more sense, and it is usually easier to keep your eye on the scrollbar while reading text.
The configuration tool shows what hardware devices are installed andlets you make changes to their settings.
The preference panel contains the more common user settings for thedesktop.
Underneath the hood OPENSTEP runs on top of a kind of Unix.
A example of a typical OPENSTEP application.
OPENSTEP includes the OmniWeb web browser. Here is the obligatory screenshot of yet another browser viewing Slashdot.
A larger screen shot of OPENSTEP running several additional demo applications.
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