On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 00:12, Chris Hanson <cmhan...@eschatologist.net> wrote: > > Not quite! Sun was a participant in creating the OpenStep standard (the NS > class prefix stands for “NeXT/Sun”) and *created their own implementation* of > OpenStep for Solaris. (Just as GNUstep is an independent implementation of > the OpenStep spec under the FSF umbrella, and OPENSTEP/Mach and > OPENSTEP/Enterprise were NeXT’s implementations.) > > OpenStep Solaris was released, both the user and developer environment, and > you should be able to find them today and install them on Solaris 2.5 or > later. I think OpenStep will run on everything through Solaris 7 or Solaris > 8, but at some point it stopped working because it required Display > PostScript in the window server. > > > Sun also bought a number of NeXTstep software houses, including > > Lighthouse, but didn't release the code. > > Indeed, that was post-OpenStep; they weren’t buying companies like Lighthouse > to get a suite of applications for OpenStep Solaris, they were buying them to > port their stuff to Java (since Java was based rather heavily on Objective-C, > and some aspects of the Java frameworks’ designs on OpenStep).
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