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FRAMEMAKER 2.0
PRE-ALPHA ON NEXTSTEP 0.9 · APRIL 1989

FrameMaker 2.0 shipped as a pre-alpha demo bundled with NeXTSTEP 0.9 in April 1989, two-and-a-half years after Frame Technology was founded by David Murray, Charles Corfield, Steven Kirsch, and Vickie Blakeslee. The NeXT and AIX builds ran on Display PostScript; every other Unix port used X/Motif. The 0.9 demo introduced what FrameMaker would be remembered for: structured documents at scale — the Paragraph Designer, the Character Catalog, the Cross-Reference machinery, and the equation editor.

Within five years FrameMaker ran on thirteen Unix platforms, became the documentation tool of Boeing, NASA, and Sun, and demanded $2,500 per seat. Adobe acquired Frame Technology in October 1995 and kept FrameMaker pointed at the professional long-document market, where it remains, mostly forgotten by everyone outside the world of two-thousand-page manuals.

The room reconstructs the foundational claim: paragraph tags drive everything. Click a paragraph, click a tag, the paragraph re-styles immediately. Click Cross-Ref to insert a live reference to any heading. Click Generate TOC to produce a Table of Contents from the heading tags. Rename a heading; the TOC and every cross-reference to it update.

FM is one of three NeXTSTEP rooms in CLASSICERY. IB · CART 015 · Interface Builder · 1988 is Hullot's NIB editor — the tool whose windows and menus this room itself descends from. WWW · CART 014 · WorldWideWeb · 1990 is Tim Berners-Lee's browser-editor, built in IB on the same Cube. The three share NeXT's magnesium chrome, charcoal titlebars, and the blue selection.

CART 010 / 019 · CLASSICERY · GENRE GREY SCALE · FRAMEMAKER NS 1989
Built in HTML/CSS/JS, no build step. The NeXTSTEP 4-grey palette is honored.
Display PostScript is approximated with web Helvetica + Crimson Text (Times analog).
No code, screenshots, or assets reproduced from Frame Technology, Adobe, or NeXT.
The Ohlfs bitmap font isn't available on the web; IBM Plex Sans stands in.
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HELP · FRAMEMAKER NS

Nine chapters on the program, the people, the platform, and the lineage.