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Allegro in Full Force (2/12/98)
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Yesterday we mentioned the disparity between the "Allegro Lite" descriptions posted by Mac OS Rumors and MacWEEK. MacWEEK claims that Allegro Lite is a feature-reduced version of the next Mac OS revision, which has some functions removed in order to meet the summer ship date. Rumors, on the other hand, talks about Allegro Lite as a "thin-client" version of the Mac OS that is tailored to run on handhelds and NC's, similar to Windows CE in concept (though hopefully about a million times better in execution). So who's right? Well, we won't know for sure until it ships, but Reality sides with Rumors on this one.
In an update to this week's edition, Reality claims that MacWEEK's report of Apple scaling down Allegro's feature set is false, or at best, based on old descriptions of what Allegro would have to offer. Way back at the dawn of time (or a year ago, at least), Allegro was planned to include pre-emptive multitasking, protected memory, and other modern OS niceties that are now planned for Rhapsody, as well as for a forthcoming Mac OS release code named Sonata. Sonata sounds like it'll be similar enough to Rhapsody on the surface to allow the entire Mac user base to migrate to Rhapsody without missing a beat. And finally the creaky underpinnings of our 1984 operating system will be gone, replaced by the actually-pretty-nearly-as-old yet "looking great for its age" underpinnings of Rhapsody.
And, of course, we spend so much time talking about Mac OS releases that won't be out for a year yet that we haven't had time to upgrade to Mac OS 8.1. One of these days we'll have to get our priorities straight. ;-)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 2/12/98 episode: February 12, 1998: Scandal! The latest OS pretender on Macintosh turf proves to be nothing but an imposter. Meanwhile, Microsoft's lawyers work to swat a fly buzzing around and asking for a billion dollars, and rumors of Allegro's imminent castration are greatly exaggerated...
Other scenes from that episode: 444: Whoopee, Another Hoax (2/12/98) Wouldn't you know it? A scant two days after we tell you about the InfiniteOS project, our buddy John Farr at AppleLinks writes to tell us that InfiniteOS is no less vaporous than COS. Let's make that clearer: On an existence scale of 1 to 10, InfiniteOS rates a 0... 445: David vs. Goliath (2/12/98) Add another lawsuit to the pile that's making Microsoft's twelve gazillion lawyers richer by the second. This time, though, it's not a government agency suing the Redmond software company, as in the Department of Justice's current litigation; nor is a big computer tech company like Sun hauling their butts to court for something like contract violation in corrupting Java...
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