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NeXTStep / OpenStep

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Immense amount of history

NeXTStep has been part of many historic events. WorldWideWeb (later renamed to Nexus) - the first ever web browser was created using a NeXT computer. It also has a history shared by gaming - revolutionary games such as Woldenstein 3D and Doom were also created on NeXT machines.

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Discontinued

After the sale to Apple (which used NeXTStep as a base for it's operating systems, including macOS, iOS, watchOS and tvOS), NeXTStep was discontinued. OpenStep doesn't seem to have had any significant use since 1996 when it was used as a base for SPARC (scalable processor architecture).

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Closed source

The source is closed, and it's a dead product, so there is no chance of updating it.

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