Apple 'Star Trek'?

From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla_at_jarai.org>
Date: Fri Jan 16 09:05:20 2004

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, chris wrote:

> However, I do know that the later Rhapsody project did in fact take a
> turn to the Intel world. They got far enough on the first version of
> OS X for Intel that it was released to developers in beta (alpha?)
> form. I have a copy of it, at one point I had it installed on a P-166.
> It ran, but that was about all it did. I'd have to pull out my CDs of
> it to be sure, but I think the date for it was around 1997 or 1998.
> There should be info on this project available out there as it was no
> secret, it was originally a fully planned version of OS X, although it
> doesn't look anything like what OS X is now (from what I understand,
> its really an Apple-ized version of NeXTStep, but haven't never
> personally used/seen NeXTStep, I can't verify that).

The Intel version of Rhapsody most likely has direct heritage in the
NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Intel port. Around the time NeXT got out of the
hardware business, they ported NEXTSTEP to Intel, Sparc, and PA-RISC.
The NS3.3 install CDs come with media for all the platforms. And I know
they were still supporting the Intel hardware as late as OPENSTEP 4.2.

-brian.
Received on Fri Jan 16 2004 - 09:05:20 GMT