Continuing with the effort to document pre-3.x versions of NeXTStep, and going backwards in time from my thread about 1.0a (
http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3088), here are some direct, pixel-for-pixel screen captures of Release 0.9. This version will be familiar to those of you who've read Bruce F. Webster's
The NeXT Book (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201158515/?tag=thegogglesdon-20).
The initial boot comes up with user "me" and no password, thus bypassing the login screen. The default desktop looks like this:

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterl/6988138864/)
NeXTStep 0.9 Initial Boot (
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterl/6988138864/) by peterl (
http://www.flickr.com/people/peterl/), on Flickr