Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 02:50:20 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apple's open source... Message-ID: <v0401170bb31653a32640@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903180058460.2438-100000@thneed.ubergeeks.com> References: <199903180046.RAA22250@usr01.primenet.com>
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At 1:00 AM -0500 3/18/99, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: >On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: >> >> It might be highly amusing to port the thing to Intel. >> >> Terry Lambert > > ROTFL. Seriously though, wasn't Rhapsody running on Intel > at some point. This is Rhapsody, right? NeXTSTEP was available for Intel as of release 3.1. By release 3.3, it was also supporting HP/PA-RISC and Sun/SPARC workstations. I still compile some things "quad-FAT" (for all four architectures) on a NeXTstation at home. NeXTSTEP was renamed OPENSTEP with release 4.0. Support for HP hardware "faded away" at some point (4.0? 4.1? 4.2?). When Apple bought NeXT (the company), OPENSTEP (the OS) was code-named Rhapsody. As recently as the August 1998 release, Rhapsody was available for both PowerPC and Intel. No SPARC, no PA-RISC. Apple added more things, changed the GUI to be very MacOS-ish, and now call it "MacOS X Server". Chances are mighty good that most (if not all) of MacOS X Server is still running on some Intel hardware at Apple -- it's just that they are not going to make that available as a product. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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