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Live Long and Prosper (1/11/98)
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MacOS Rumors is talking about the "Star Trek: The NeXT Generation" project again. "Star Trek," you may recall, was the Apple project to get System 7 running on Intel chips. The project succeeded, but then had its plug pulled due to various political and financial reasons. "ST:TNG" is the rumored reincarnation of that old project, which is said to be trying to get Mac OS 8 running on the x86 architecture.

According to Rumors' latest update, there's been a flurry of activity at Apple to hire a lot of people who've worked on emulation projects in the past. The push is so great, in fact, that Steve Jobs himself has reportedly spent three hours on the phone to persuade a bitter ex-Apple employee to return and work on a project so hush-hush that he's "not allowed to say a single word" about it. Oooooh, cloak and dagger stuff! We dig it. Whether this top secret project is "ST:TNG" or another super-sensitive emulation thingy remains to be seen.

Meanwhile, keep your fingers crossed for the Rumors staff, who are dealing with one helluva winter storm. It missed your friendly neighborhood AtAT elves by about three feet (give or take a few hundred miles), but up there in Maine it's killed power, heat, and people. Our best wishes go out to the Meaders and everyone else dealing with this ice storm ickiness.

 
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The above scene was taken from the 1/11/98 episode:

January 11, 1998: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 348: It'll Never Catch On (1/11/98)   Well, we've come to the end of another MacWorld Expo, and the next U.S. event is in July. But IDG Expo Management evidently aren't satisified with just changing the location of the summer MacWorld Expo from Boston to New York...

  • 349: Marketshare on the Rise (1/11/98)   Could it be possible? According to Reality, there's a report from PCData which shows Apple's market share up a full percentage point at the end of last year. That study apparently claims Apple's slice of the computing pie to be 5.9%. An increase in Apple market share?...

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