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Re:OpenBSD Innovations by mattl on Sunday February 23, 2025 @12:10AM (#43146755)
OPENSTEP is the OS, OpenStep is the framework.

After NeXTSTEP 3.3 there was OPENSTEP 4.0.

OPENSTEP 4.2 is the last operating system release prior to Rhapsody.

Yes it’s confusing.

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Re:OpenBSD Innovations by hnlmorg on Sunday February 23, 2025 @12:20AM (#43146819)
True. The capitalisation rules for releases kills me every time too. Not just with OpenStep but with Next too. I now don’t even bother trying to get the capitalisation correct.

Considering how obsessed with UX that Jobs was, I don’t get how he thought the naming conventions were a good idea.

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Re:OpenBSD Innovations by mattl on Sunday February 23, 2025 @12:27AM (#43146870)
I believe it all came after Paul Rand did the logo.

NeXT looks good in the logo, and they spent $100,000 on it.

FWIW, I like it but it is confusing and made harder by the fact they also didn’t stick to their own conventions much of the time.

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