On Sep 22, 2010, at 8:18 PM, Midnight rider wrote:
I have been using Macs since the OS 7.5.5 days, and ever since, i
can't stop exploring this ever expanding realm of macs. I have since
grown my collection to 16 Macs, most of them G4 machines and most of
them bought in this year. I do miss the old days when System 7 was
the flagship, so I keep my Power Mac 6100 downstairs along with some
other macs that run OS 7.6, some run OS 7.5.3, others run tiger or
OS 9.1. I use mostly Leopard machines nowadays, but i do keep one
System 7 machine in reach just in case i need to take a trip down
memory lane. I never messed around with NeXTstep too much back in
those days, i stuck with Mac OS and Systems.... until I ran into
"Rhapsody". I installed it on my Power Mac G3 Gossamer, and was
surprised that what used to be NeXTstep all looks like mac os
platinum.... That was the first time i ever thought that this would
be the base for Mac OS 9.0 or OS 10.
NeXTstep was bought out by Apple in the late OS 6 days... if i am
correct. If Apple was already undergoing plans for OS X in those
days, can imagine Apple making plans already for Mac OS XI 11.0 or
Mac OS 11.
The acquisition of Apple by NeXT occurred in 1997, for the price of
roughly negative $400 million.
or maybe even better,
System 11.
Apple's 'next-generation' operating system was originally supposed to
be Mac OS 8, code-name 'Copland', followed by Mac OS 9 ('Gershwin').
Copland wasn't working out, so they bought NeXT and in the meantime
rebranded Mac OS 7.7 ('Tempo') as Mac OS 8 shipped it with the
Appearance Manager from Copland.
The name 'Rhapsody' is quite possibly a pun. The Classic environment
in developer-speak was called the Blue box (as 'Blue' was the code
name for System 7 and refers to that system through OS 9). The
specific version of Blue that the box would run was OS 9, so you had
Gershwin's Blue in Rhapsody.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody_in_Blue
Josh
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