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

jeff thorstad(thorstadj[at]macconnect.com)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 09:56:36 -0500

>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.
>--

Carbon essentially erases the need for all the "boxes" of Rhapsody. They
were confusing, to say the least. This is why the name changed to Mac OS
X, since it is quite a different look from a developer's angle. (That and
Rhapsody was really just a code name, bound to be changed to an actual
product name.)

Jeff T
thorstadj@macconnect.com

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