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Tata Consultancy Services Limited, originally known as Tata Computer Systems, was established in 1968 by Tata Sons Limited. [14] The company's initial contracts involved providing punched card services to its sister company TISCO (now Tata Steel ), developing an Inter-Branch Reconciliation System for the Central Bank of India , [ 15 ] and ...
NeXTSTEP is a discontinued object-oriented, multitasking operating system based on the Mach kernel and the UNIX-derived BSD. It was developed by NeXT Computer , founded by Steve Jobs , in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was initially used for its range of proprietary workstation computers such as the NeXTcube .
In the macOS, iOS, NeXTSTEP, and GNUstep programming frameworks, property list files are files that store serialized objects. Property list files use the filename extension.plist, and thus are often referred to as p-list files. Property list files are often used to store a user's settings.
The NeXTcube is the successor to the original NeXT Computer, with a 68040 processor, a hard disk in place of the magneto-optical drive, and a floppy disk drive. NeXT offered a 68040 system board upgrade (and NeXTSTEP 2.0) for US$1,495 (equivalent to $3,490 in 2023).
The NeXT character set (often aliased as NeXTSTEP encoding vector, WE8NEXTSTEP [1] or next-multinational [2]) was used by the NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP operating systems on NeXT workstations beginning in 1988.
William "Wil" Jon Shipley (born October 16, 1969) is a Macintosh software developer, best known for co-founding and heading The Omni Group in 1991, where he did consulting work and developed software for the NeXTSTEP operating system, Rhapsody and later Mac OS X.
Lighthouse developed software for NeXT computers running the NeXTSTEP operating system. The company was founded in 1989 by Alan Chung, Roger Rosner, Jonathan Schwartz, Kevin Steele and Brian Skinner, in Bethesda, Maryland. Lighthouse later moved to San Mateo, California. In 1996, Lighthouse was acquired by Sun Microsystems. [1]
A sign of the NeXTSTEP heritage, AppKit's classes and protocols still use the "NS" prefix. Most of the applications bundled with macOS—for example, the Finder, TextEdit, Calendar, and Preview—use AppKit to provide their user interface.