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Rhapsody in View (10/10/97)
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Better late than never. (Late? Who's Late?) MacWEEK reports that Apple will take the wraps off the first developer release of Rhapsody for PowerPC next Tuesday. The Intel version should ship by Halloween. While this developer release will lack many of the technologies and niceties of the public releases of Rhapsody (most notably, the Blue Box, which allows Rhapsody to run Mac OS 8 applications), it's a momentous step in the shaping of the Mac's future. If any faithful AtAT viewers are among the 10,000 registered Apple developers who will receive DR1, we'd appreciate you dropping us a line after you've used it to let us know what you think.
Meanwhile, the Intel version's not the only cross-platform goodie heating up the Rhapsody scene. MacOS Rumors is reporting that the long-rumored Solaris port may still come to pass, as well as a less-likely Alpha version. (Solaris is Sun's version of Unix; the Alpha is Digital's chip, recently courted by Intel.) The possibility of a Solaris version intrigues us; Rumors claims that Steve Jobs has buddied up to Sun to make this possibility more likely. Could this explain his otherwise inexplicable desire to replace the Macs currently serving Apple's web site with Sun workstations? Hmmmm.
On the other hand, an Alpha port is less interesting, given the distinct possibility of that chip being bought by the monolithic Intel and promptly relegated to the dustbin of chipstory, killed by a lack of marketing so intense you'd think it was being unhyped by last year's Apple.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 10/10/97 episode: October 10, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)
Other scenes from that episode: 71: QD3D Gunned Down (10/10/97) Mac the Knife dishes the dirt that QuickDraw 3D may be following in the footsteps of OpenDoc and other cool Apple technologies that didn't quite make it. Apparently QD3D is being segmented, with selected chunks getting mixed in to the Quicktime stew, and the rest stuffed down the virtual garbage disposal. AtAT pauses to reflect on the folly of trying to foist an alternate standard onto a skeptical developer public when an accepted standard already exists... 72: Anuff Already (10/10/97) And this week's "Bitter Little Troll" award goes to Wired Magazine's Joey Anuff. Joey wrote a story on Apple's "Think Different" campaign that incidentally claimed that any Powermac on a T1 line would "get its clock cleaned by a 486 with a 28.8 modem."...
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