I went back and did some reading from Apple Confidential, it does list that
Star Trek was made into a functional demo and was booting on Intel 486 PC's
(actually supplied by Intel themselves as the Star Trek offices were located
across the street)
Apparently the head of technology saw his pink slip flash before his eyes
when he realized that a Mac OS on PC hardware would cause the elimination of
Mac hardware and the project was scuttled internally...
It would be cool to see that original code running on a PC today.
Also it mentioned that while the OS did boot on a PC, the Chooser didn't
work, nor did serial port access and/or appletalk and Applications did not
work and would've had to have been ported over.
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Rice" <jrice54_at_charter.net>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: Apple 'Star Trek'?
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> Curt vendel wrote:
>
> >Hmmmm....
> >
> >D/L'ing now... curious to check this out :-)
> >
> >I have a Mac OS X 10.2 Server running in my office, so I'm curious to see
> >how these interact...
> >
> >Curt
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Andrew Prince" <freddyboomboom_at_comcast.net>
> >To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> ><cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> >Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 10:37 PM
> >Subject: OT: Re: Apple 'Star Trek'?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 22:37, 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.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>***Snip***
> >>
> >>
> >>> 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).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Well... They have Darwin (the parts under the fancy GUI) available in
> >>x86 format... Freely downloadable at
> >>http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/ all the way from 10.0 to
> >>10.3...
> >>
> >>Or is that not what you're interested in?
> >>
> >>Sorry for being Off Topic...
> >>
> >>TTFN
> >>Andy-roo
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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