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Rumors Won't Die (10/20/97)
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So yes, kiddies, Mac OS Rumors is back and dishing dirt with a vengeance to make up for lost time. While their new DNS info filters through the net, you can reach them at their IP address, 209.100.58.71. Don't miss their first installment, which is jam-packed with sneaky goodness.

According to their sources, what we've all known as Rhapsody may end up shipping as "Unity," as a result of brainstorming sessions headed up by Captain Steve himself. Now, it's always been known that "Rhapsody" was only a development name, but I have to say, "Unity" just doesn't have the same ring to it. It certainly makes sense for the PPC version, since it will include both the modern "Yellow Box" and the compatibility "Blue Box," but what may end up being "Unity for Intel" will be Yellow only. So why "Unity?" Call it a vain hope, but we at AtAT always harbored a secret desire that the name "Rhapsody" would remain.

Rumors also mentions that while the Apple-Oracle merger proposition is still slated to be presented to the board at the end of this month, the prospects of a joint UMAX-Motorola Apple buyout are shrinking every day. Score one for Apple.

Just for the record, if Rumors wasn't taken out by Apple's Ninja Hit Squad, they'd better start packing heat after posting those super-secret spy photos of upcoming Apple products, straight from the ad shoots... It's great to have them back, in any case.

 
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The above scene was taken from the 10/20/97 episode:

October 20, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 101: How Do We Explain...? (10/20/97)   It's a magical day in MacWebLand. We woke up to find the sun shining, the birds singing, and two major insider-news sites back from the brink of extinction. That's right-- MacInsider, recently thought "whacked" by an Apple-Asia-funded Ninja Hit Squad, suddenly resurfaced as if nothing had happened...

  • 103: O.J. Killed Apple (10/20/97)   So have you noticed that whenever something sensational yet tawdry happens in the news, a book about the event shows up in the local Barnes & Noble in about three and a half minutes? Well, when the tawdry-yet-sensational event draws out over twenty years and doesn't involve an ex-sports-star-turned-actor, sometimes it takes a little longer...

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