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2026-08-04 06:55 UTC
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange 2026-08-04 13:02
@tux0r@layer8.space @gcsolaroli@mastodon.clipperz.is @logout@oldbytes.space @raffaele@digipres.club Possibly a later version, but the 1992 copyright suggests that this is NeXTSTEP, not OPENSTEP. The NeXTSTEP GUI APIs were... fine. For the era. But they didn't have an equivalent of Foundation, they didn't do reference counting for the objects, and they used const char* for strings all over the place. GNUstep doesn't implement any of these old APIs, only the OpenStep specification, which OPENSTEP implemented, and newer additions from Cocoa. The windows will also be an ancient version of the NIB format. You might be able to get a bunch of older versions of NeXT Interface Builder in emulators chained together to bring them into a format that old GNUstep / GORM can load.