> Am 12.05.2026 um 10:46 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]>: > > Gregory Casamento wrote: >> Hey Guys, >> >> I am glad to acknowledge our 35th anniversary. From the Usenet post that >> Lars showed us guys all the way until today, GNUstep has come so far. Here >> are a few firsts that the project has had: > > Lars and I prepared a surprise. > >> >> 1) First free software implementation of OpenStep/Cocoa. >> 2) 64-bit compliant before Apple's implementation >> 3) Was originally supposed to be the official GNU environment. > > Not complete certified "firsts". > > But "first" before Apple to run on Intel, SPARC and PA-RISC (NeXT did support > them, but processors were gradually lost through OpenStep and finally to > MacOS X 10.0). > > First before Apple to run Multiprocessor (with some work done right on the > SparcStation 20 that I have and is still running GNUstep). Apple did not have > public multi-CPU boards, probably though used some internally with UltraSPARC > and Intel already. > > GNUstep also did run on a Home Appliance before Apple TV (SNAP!) although it > did not go public.
GNUstep (well, the mySTEP flavour) did run on mobile devices [1, 2] before iOS became public in 2007 [3]. [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2006-12/msg00086.html [2] https://download.goldelico.com/quantumstep/FOSDEM%202007%20-%20Embedded%20GNUstep.pdf [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS#History
