Re: [WinMac] Re: Re:Choice of AppleShare IP 6.0 vs. NT

Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:56:18 -0400

At 01:02 AM 10/12/98 -0400, Dan Schwartz wrote:
>
> Dear Al:
>
> You are confusing "Rhapsody," NeXTStep, and OS X...
> NeXTStep was Steve Jobs' OS based on the Mach kernel (Carnegie Mellon) UNIX;
> "Rhapsody" was supposed to be Apple's implementation of NeXTStep, with the
>Yellow Box and Blue Box;
> OS X is simply a cleaned up extension of MacOS 8... It has nothing to do
>with any form of UNIX.
> Just another form of Jobs' doubletalk... OS X is still the MacOS; and more
>importantly lacking NT's, OpenVMS,' and UNIX' protected memory and
>multitasking.
>At 11:10 PM 10/11/98 EDT, ProfSci@aol.com wrote:
>>
>>In a message dated 10/11/98 6:18:34 PM, expresso@snip.net writes:
>>
>> Rhapsody was killed off by Steve Jobs. Typical Steve Jobs: Pan off his
>>struggling NeXT onto Apple for $400 million in December, 1996; and then
>>kill off the product that Apple bought.
>>
>>The Rhapsody (Mac OS X) Server software is due out this month, as I
>understand
>>it.

I'm not going to explain all the ways this is wrong, everyone interested
please read this article:
<http://macworld.zdnet.com/pages/august.98/Feature.4406.html>

The magic word in MacOS X is 'Carbon,' the name for the cleaned up, updated
Mac Toolbox. Unlike with Rhapsody, applications won't have to be written
from scratch to operate, just updated to take advantage of the OS's
improvements. If an app runs under MacOS 8, it'll run under MacOS X.
Carbon-updated apps will run under MacOS 8 (will probably require something
like a 'Carbon compatibility' extension for MacOS 8). Mac OS X will also
have Rhapsody's "Yellow Box" but I don't think I could explain it well.

Things Mac OS X will have: Protected Memory, Preemptive Multitasking,
Virtual Memory (w/ no more need to increase RAM allotment from Get Info
window), Multithreading and Multiprocessing, Mach Kernel.

Rhapsody 1.0 (w/ full "blue box" Mac OS emulation) is still suppposed to be
released this fall but that may be basically the end of it.

-- 
Curtis Wilcox           cwcx@cc.rochester.edu
Desktop Systems Consultant       716/274-1160
Eastman School of Music       Pager: x12-3290


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