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Bit
A bit (a contraction of binary digit) is a unit of data that consists of a binary value (0 or 1, also represented on/off and true/false). Groups of 8-bits of data are -
OpenStep
OpenStep, also stylized as OPENSTEP, is an open-source API derived from the NeXTSTEP operating system that was developed by NeXT. After Apple Computer announced in December 1996 that it would acquire NeXT, OpenStep was -
Hartmut Esslinger
Hartmut Esslinger (born June 5, 1944) is a German-American industrial designer and the founder of Frog Design. He worked on the industrial design of computers for Apple Computer and NeXT. Esslinger first met Steve -
NeXT Wiki
Welcome to the NeXT Wiki! We're a collaborative website about the history of NeXT and its products that anyone, including you, can build and expand. (click the "ADD NEW PAGE" or "EDIT" button at -
Bruce Blumberg
Bruce Blumberg was an early employee of NeXT who worked as a product marketing manager and senior development support engineer. Blumberg received a B.A. in economics from Amherst College in 1977, and his S -
Display PostScript
Display PostScript, or DPS, is a version of the PostScript page decription language adapted by Adobe Systems so that a computer screen accurately displays what is intended to be printed in WYSIWYG fashion. Steve Jobs -
Gary Moore
Gary H. Moore was the general counsel of NeXT. Moore received his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1966, and graduated magna cum laude with a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1969. -
List of NeXT products
The following is a list of products developed by NeXT: External links[] NeXT Publications at NeXT (archived 1997-04-12), NeXT Products at The Best of NeXT Computers, NeXT: The Hardware and The Software at -
Central processing unit
The Central Processing unit (also referred to as CPU) is the part of a computer which controls all the other parts. Designs vary widely but the CPU generally consists of the control unit, the arithmetic -
Objective-C
Objective-C is an object-oriented superset of ANSI C by Brad Cox and Tom Love of Stepstone (later Productivity Products International). Its additions to the C programming language are few and are mostly based -
32-bit
32-bit refers to thirty-two binary (0 or 1) units of integer data. This allows for up to 4,294,967,296 combinations of values. 32-bit color is typically split into four sets -
64-bit
64-bit refers to sixty-four binary (0 or 1) units of integer data. This allows for up to 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 combinations of values. 64-bit color, is typically split -
16-bit
16-bit refers to sixteen binary (0 or 1) units of integer data. This allows for up to 65,536 combinations of values. 16-bit color can allow for up to 65,536 grays. However -
Tom Carlisle
Tom Carlisle is an early employee of Apple Computer who worked as an interior designer. He followed co-founder Steve Jobs to NeXT to become one of its first ten employees as the director of -
24-bit
24-bit refers to twenty-four binary (0 or 1) units of integer data. This allows for up to 16,777,216 combinations of values. 24-bit color can allow for up to 16,777 -
Word (computing)
Word and its variations are computing terms for sets of data that is processed as a unit. For development on NeXTSTEP, a "word" typically refers to 16 bits, or 2 bytes, of data. Variations[] A -
8-bit
8-bit refers to eight binary (0 or 1) units of integer data. This allows for up to 256 combinations of values, typically from 0 to 255. 8-bit color allows for up to 256 -
Byte
A byte is a unit of data that typically consists of 8 bits. Historically, this reflected the amount of data required to store an ASCII value to represent one of up to 256 different characters -
Lynn Takahashi Franklin
Lynn Y. Takahashi Franklin was a member of the original Macintosh development team at Apple Computer where she worked as an assistant to co-founder Steve Jobs. In 1985, she followed Jobs to NeXT where -
24-bit color
24-bit color, in a RGB color space, is a color depth that can allow for up to 16,777,216 unique colors, split into three sets of 8-bit values for 256 levels per -
2-bit
2-bit refers to two binary (0 or 1) units of integer data. This allows for up to 4 combinations of values, typically from 0 to 3. 2-bit color allows for up to 4 -
4-bit
4-bit refers to four binary (0 or 1) units of integer data. This allows for up to 16 combinations of values, typically from 0 to 15. 4-bit color allows for up to 16 -
Apple Computer
Apple Computer, Inc., formerly Apple Computer Company, is an United States multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. -
Oral History of Dan'l Lewin
This is a test to see if a bug from MediaWiki 1.19.24 is reproduced in UCP (bug report id#952017). Pages where the bug occurred: https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Apple_Special_Event -
Blog:Recent posts
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