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May 14, 1998
Next Mac Os A Solid '10'
Apple Computer has introduced yet another revised roadmap for the Mac OS, it's fourth
in as many years. This time, however, the plan bears the distinctive fingerprint
of Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs.
The new operating system, dubbed Mac OS X (for version 10) will ship to programmers
early next year, and hits the streets in the fall of 1999. The updated software will
deliver preemptive multitasking and multithreading, which makes applications run
faster; protected memory, which prevents crashes; and 100% pure 32-bit PowerPC code.
It will run only on Apple's G3 systems.
Touted as "revolutionary" by Apple officials, Mac OS X wraps the Macintosh
APIs and user interface over Apple's Unix-based Rhapsody core. This differs from
the company's previous plans, which required programmers to build two completely
different versions of their software -- one for Mac OS 8, and another for Rhapsody.
Sources say Apple CEO Jobs considered that strategy "nuts."
Rich Levin, KYW Newsradio.
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