On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Armen Babikyan wrote:

> Rhapsody (the "MacNT" of the future) will and BeOS does support protected
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Please don't pigeon-hole Rhapsody like that - ideally it will be good
enough, and PowerPC Mac owners will be willing enough to just move to it.
Apple hasn't decided exactly how to promote it, so lets leave it open for
now.

And besides, who wants to associate Rhapsody with the lousy-vanilla OS
created by the guy who did VAX/VMS? :-P

> memory and some level of multitasking (i think), so i do see some light of
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Rhapsody: Mach Microkernel + *BSD UNIX (integral virtual paging/memory
protection, pre-emptive multithreading), with Display PostScript on top

BeOS: Microkernel + POSIX-compliancy + BeOS-sepcific APIs (integral
virtual paging/memory protection, pre-emptive multithreading)

> being able to compile shells on those machines, but they probably would be
> crippled compared to what a real un*x could do. (probably could do
> everything eventually, but that would take a long time to rewrite)

POSIX-compliant UNIX software compiles under both.  Rhapsody will be a
full *BSD distribution.  BeOS comes bundled with a slew of UNIX software
already compiled, and has a built-in bash shell.  Rhapsody can use just
about any shell.

Rhapsody IS a full UNIX!  It's BSD with a DPS engine on top!!!

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Nathan Raymond
http://www.everythingmac.com