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Mac OS-a-Go-Go (3/30/98)
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Man, it's not like it was hard to get excited about the Mac OS before, but these days, the future is positively thrilling. Sure, the first customer release of Rhapsody's coming out this July, according to Mac OS Rumors (probably to be unveiled at MacWorld Expo New York?), but Allegro's due in the same time frame, which will bring a slew of cool features to the "average Mac user's" desktop, such as better performance, awesome Appearance themes, and improved memory protection. For most of the Mac-using world, Allegro will have a more immediate impact that Rhapsody will this summer.
Then, next January, things get seriously cool with Sonata, a Mac OS that's so much more architecturally advanced than Mac OS 8.1, you can basically think of it as "Rhapsody for users instead of servers." While Allegro is rumored to include some early form of the Yellow Box runtime libraries (which will let Allegro users run applications coded for Rhapsody), Sonata is the Yellow Box, hosted on the Mach kernel, and including a "transparent" Blue Box to allow people to run today's Mac OS applications flawlessly.
So for all of you who (like us) were concerned about Apple's de-emphasis of Rhapsody as a user OS and their re-emphasis on the Mac OS as the primary operating system of Apple for years to come, there's quite a lot to look forward to. Indeed, given the description of Sonata, it sounds like we're all going to be running Rhapsody after all-- it'll just be called the Mac OS. Shrewd marketing at work?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/30/98 episode: March 30, 1998: Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field continues to hold the rest of the Apple board helpless in its unbreakable grip. Meanwhile, debate rages on over whether Steve plans to announce his formal czarship in April, or just keep stringing the audience along for as long as he can, and a future incarnation of the venerable Mac OS illustrates what happens when you replace every part of your old car with new merchandise...
Other scenes from that episode: 581: Steve's Little Finger (3/30/98) As most of you are well aware, the big news tonight is the confirmation that Steve Jobs really does have the rest of the Apple board eating out of his hand. That should come as no surprise to anyone, given that, since assuming the role of interim CEO last summer, he's managed to double the company's stock price and post a profit, all the while slowly and subtly reversing the trend of the media portraying Apple as a lame duck... 582: Or, Just Possibly... (3/30/98) On the other hand, we may not have to wait for the Jobs CEO announcement too long after all, if Reality's clues have any merit. Consider the following: next month's stockholder meeting, already delayed several times since February, has Jobs slated for the keynote address...
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