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Yellow Box Hijinx (10/12/97)
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One quick bit of "real" news-- In contrast to earlier reports, MacInTouch says that Apple has not committed to providing a Yellow Box for Mac OS, though they haven't ruled out the possibility, either. (Read: waffling.) The Yellow Box is the modern portion of Rhapsody that will run programs written in Rhapsody's development environment. Apple has committed to providing Yellow Box runtime enviroments for Rhapsody (for both PowerPC and Intel), Windows 95, and Windows NT. This basically guarantees that when developers do their programming in Rhapsody, the resulting software would run on any of the above platforms.

For a while there, it looked pretty likely that Apple would release a Yellow Box runtime environment for the next major revision of Mac OS, code-named Allegro. This Yellow Box environment would essentially allow Mac OS users to run Rhapsody software, which would be a big draw to developers. Hopefully, Apple will have the time and resources to get this working.

 
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The above scene was taken from the 10/12/97 episode:

October 12, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

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  • 77: User Thinks Different (10/12/97)   Thanx to Webintosh to providing a link to Bill Vlahos' homepage, who has an interesting "grass roots" alternative to Apple's "Think Different" campaign. Bill acknowledges that "Think Different" is a good start to getting Apple's brand name back in the collective mind of the computer-buying public, but he feels that product-centric ads are crucial right now-- and that if Apple won't provide them, perhaps we the users can...

  • 79: They Keep Rolling In (10/12/97)   In an embarrassment of riches, we're proud to have been chosen as Mac One's site of the week, for having "the Right Stuff-- the Mac Stuff." That makes three awards in as many weeks. How long can we possibly keep up a rate like that? Show your support for us and your appreciation for them by giving them a visit...

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