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Apple Switches Rhapsody Kernel Israelhttp://www.techweb.com/wire/news/aug/0801kernel.html




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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