On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Allen Briggs wrote:

> > Hmm seems a bit ill timed as mac os is being replaced with rhapsody in
> > January.
> 
> Well, not really replaced.  From what I've heard, it'll be more like
> parallel development of Rhapsody and the MacOS.  Kinda like Windows NT
> and Windows 95...  The main reason for this is that Apple will not be
> supporting Rhapsody on older hardware--I think they're limiting it to
> PowerPC systems with OpenFirmware (sound familiar? ;-).
>

It will be on intel as well. The mac os will only be supported for as
long as it takes to get people to take up the new os. I don't see them
supporting the old hardware for long if rhapsody gets established well
in the "mac" camp people will upgrade their hardware and take the new
os at teh same time.
 
> For those who don't know, Rhapsody is a derivative of OpenStep.  It will
> apparently have a "4.4BSD command line" accessible, and it'll be available
> on intel and powerpc systems.  There's a bunch of other neat stuff on it
> on Apple's web site and there's some interesting info  from John Norstad
> at http://charlotte.acns.nwu.edu/jln/wwdc97.html...  It's currently vapor,
> of course, although large and impressive chunks have been demoed and
> developers will be getting a release this summer (Apple was handing out
> CDs of the developer's release for Intel last month, I believe).
> 

Well I have seen the demo. The 4.4 kernel is there and the developer
release should be available by august if what is murmered is true. So
most of the vapour will be solid by then but I imagine developement
will continue right up until january to meet all the little extras
that keep getting mentioned. Still its being developed at a very fast
rate.

--Sean