Re: apple rumor

[Russell Smith <rssmith@TENET.EDU>]

lnichols@CSC.SCTBOCES.ORG (Linda Nichols) writes:
> There was an article in the Sunday paper that said that Apple has
> purchased Steve Jobs Next company so that they can use the operating
> system.  It suggested that a new computer with the new opeating system
> might not be able to run current Macintosh software.  It pointed out that

   They are working to develop a new operating system since the
never-released Copland went down the tubes in October. The codename for
the new Mac OS is Rhapsody. It will indeed be a complete break away from
System 7, but Macintosh promises a long lag period of support for System 7
and that it will be advanced itself through a final version 7.9.  The same
thing is going to happen on the PC side eventually....new operating
systems will finally split with the past with no backward compatibility.
Microsoft debated hard about doing that with Windows 95, but decided
backward compatibility was more important this time. Windows 97 will also
be backward compatible (release later this year).

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