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All of you should be delighted to read of such "public" recognition of
Linux..., (still by Apple, not Intel).
http://www.techweb.com/wire/news/aug/0801kernel.html
August 03, 1997
Apple Switches Rhapsody Kernel
(08/01/97, 12:00 p.m. EDT)
By Lisa Picarille, CommunicationsWeek
Apple Computer has seeded within the company a new build
of its Rhapsody next-generation operating system that
uses a new microkernel.
Sources inside the company said Apple replaced the Mach
2.5.8 microkernel that was used as the base for NextStep
and OpenStep. Instead, Apple developers have opted to
make the Mach 3.0 microkernel, which comes from the
MkLinux development effort, the new heart of Rhapsody.
One source, who asked not to be named, said he was
concerned that Rhapsody on the Mac 3.0 kernel was likely
to be slower and have "potentially more bugs."
Other sources, however, claimed that the developers were
familiar with the Mach 3.0 technology since Next already
had started porting OpenStep to Mach 3.0 prior to being
purchased by Apple last December.
The sources added that changing the kernel and making
minor adjustments to the YellowBox, the part of the
operating system that contains Java support and the
OpenStep APIs, is easier than using the previous version
of the Mach microkernel.
Rhapsody is due out next summer. [end]
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