>Actually, as far as I can tell, OS X is a revamped NeXTStep.
>
>Didnt anybody else laugh with glee (to themselves) when Apple
>releasd the G4 cube?
>
>"Wait a minute, i've seen this before.."
>
>Bill
Here is the chain of events for the OS itself, I think I've got just about
everything here.
Apple buys NeXT (mainly to get Steve Jobs back I believe)
Prelude to Rhapsody given out at at WWDC and shipped to developers (it's
OPENSTEP 4.2). Remember with V4.0 NeXTstep became OPENSTEP.
First Rhapsody beta's run on both x86 and *ALL* PCI based Mac's, they've
got also got the classic mac interface.
Rhapsody released as "Mac OS X Server"
Mac OS X Beta's
The Aqua interface is released on a Beta of Mac OS X
Mac OS X Released
In about 2 months Mac OS X 1.1 will be out.
The question is, how many Mac users are still taking a wait and see
attitude towards it? I just *FINALLY* upgraded from Mac OS 8.6/G4 to 9.1
*after* I bought the release version of Mac OS X. I used Mac OS X for a
total of about a week after it came out. Once a Mac OS X native version of
eXodus is released I'll give OSX a serious thought. The real problem I see
for it is that there are currently no Adobe products except Acrobat Reader
that run on it native.
Zane
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Received on Sat Jul 28 2001 - 23:06:26 BST