Copyright ã1995 by NeXT Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

	OpenStep Journal
	
	Volume 1, Issue 1
	Spring 1995

		Features

	The Same, Yet Different: NEXTSTEP and OpenStep
	You can start to plan now for the OpenStep world. Here's a description of how NEXTSTEP differs from OpenStep and ideas for making future conversion of your applications as easy as possible.

	Jean Ostrem

	Writing Device Drivers in an Object-Oriented World
	Driver Kit greatly eases the task of writing device drivers, essential components of an I/O subsystem.

	Gary Staas

	Realities of Distributed Objects
	Designing a distributed application can offer a valuable education. This first article in a series focuses on registering and connecting to servers.

	Brian Raymor and Randy Tidd

		Departments

	appDidInit:
	Steps on a new journey toward successful solutions with OpenStep.

	The Village Smithy
	The smith hammers out the details of network startup.

	Alan M. Marcum

	FAQ
	Answers to questions frequently asked of NeXT's SupportLine. This issue features ditto, a useful new upgrading tool.

		CREDITS AND LEGAL MATTER

	Editorial
	Editor: Cynthia Closkey
	Copy editor: John Hammett

	Design and production
	Book designer: Cindy Steinberg
	Cover designer and illustrator: Daniel Marusich
	Production artist: Erica Denison
	Production coordinator: Jennifer Sherer
	Circulation manager: Chona Reyes
	Printer: Forman/Leibrock

	Contributions
	Brandon Greimann, Alan M. Marcum, Jean Ostrem, Brian Raymor, Gary Staas, Randy Tidd

	Technical reviews
	David Bohman, Philip Dibner, Alan Freier, Chris Friesen, Blaine Garst, Joe Keenan, Marc Majka, 
	Trey Matteson, Doug Mitchell, Allan Nathanson

	Special thanks
	John Carmack, Toni Childress, Greg Epstein, Allen Denison, Monika Linke, Judith Starnes

	Colophon
	The OpenStep Journal is designed, written, and produced with NEXTSTEP. Final pages are output to film from PostScript to a high- resolution imagesetter and printed via offset lithography. The Futura, Trade Gothic, and Caslon families of typefaces are used throughout this journal.

	About the OpenStep Journal
	The OpenStep Journal is a quarterly technical journal published by NeXT. It provides timely technical information and thorough examples for programmers and system administrators. Each subscription issue includes a floppy disk that contains an electronic version of the journal. The disk can be used with the 
	Digital LibrarianÔ application to access information on specific topics by searching for keywords.

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