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Rhapsody and the world of Unix
Apple's next big technology leap will be a software one, with the
introduction of Rhapsody in July 1998.
http://www.macosrumors.com/rhapinfo.shtml
It will be based mainly on NeXT's core OS, BSD 4.4 apps will compile and
run natively (I guess this means all GNU software too), as well as old mac
apps. and all with a very appealing API:
http://www.macosrumors.com/images/mockup_finalgamma.jpg
http://www.macosrumors.com/images/Mockup_Detail.jpg
note these are MOCKUP shots assembled according to rumors leaking out of
Apple, not real released images...
Rhapsody will run on Ppc machines, as well as Intel, running old mac and
win32 apps in a virtual machine. I think this means a big new hope the the
Unix world too (especially since Silicon graphics started talking about
not dismissing the option of running NT on their stations...)
on an even more off-topic note nor linux-il: note that one good thing
might still arise from Gates' deal with apple: he now has acess to all of
Apple's and NeXT's patents (over 750 of them), I hope his developers
actually learn and implement a few... especially those to do with process
and memory management...
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