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

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:15:08 -0400

        I stand corrected... OS X and the "Carbon" API was not clearly defined
when I read about it in MacWeek when it was announced.

At 09:56 AM 10/12/98 -0400, Curtis wrote:
>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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