As the Apple Turns: Scene 292: Yellow Box Just Works (12/22/97)

Yellow Box Just Works (12/22/97)

Even though Rhapsody's still in its first developer release, it's creating a bit of a stir with its cross-platform development capabilities. One of the most intriguing features of the Rhapsody development environment is its reported ability to recompile a single application codebase for deployment on other non-Rhapsody platforms. These "Yellow Box" applications can then run on any platform that has a Yellow Box implementation, which currently includes Windows NT and may include the Mac OS, Solaris, and other operating systems.

Sounds great, but we were skeptical. Enter Mac OS Rumors, who report on a Rhapsody application being recompiled for NT. Omni Development ported their Omniweb browser to NT in a day via the Yellow Box. Omniweb is a full-fledged major application, not just some tiny "Hello World" program, and porting it to NT in a day on a lark is a pretty incredible feat-- imagine porting, say, Netscape from Windows to the Mac in a day; that's a similar comparison. According to the guy at Omni, though they haven't fully tested the ported application, as far as they can tell, "everything just works." (There's even a screenshot link at the Rumors site.)

Now, we at AtAT aren't software developers, per se-- but if we were, and we had an option to write software on Rhapsody and then, with a tiny bit of effort, compile and ship that software for Rhapsody PPC, Rhapsody Intel, Windows 95, Windows NT, probably the Mac OS, and possibly Solaris, we'd jump at the chance. Heck, who wouldn't?

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The above scene was taken from the 12/22/97 episode:

December 22, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

293: Jobs: What to Say? (12/22/97) With no real new products to roll out in three weeks (the NC's are no longer expected to make an appearance, by most accounts), what exactly will Steve Jobs talk about in his MacWorld Expo keynote address?...
294: Evil Incarnate (12/22/97) Believe it or not, we at AtAT try to be charitable during the holidays. (Stop laughing.) But everytime Microsoft starts trying to persuade the K-12 education market to replace their Macs with Windows 95 systems, we have to say there's little we find more immoral. Consider, for instance, this Microsoft page expressly written to lure grade schools and high schools to ditch their Macs and replace them with Windows 95 machines...

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