Mac OS 9 Lives

General => Off Topic => Topic started by: supernova777 on May 08, 2015, 11:01:34 PM

Title: mac os x was already planned before 9.0 was even released?
Post by: supernova777 on May 08, 2015, 11:01:34 PM

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9810/19/newapple.idg/

this article talks about 8.5 being released..
and mentions osx..
i think ive posted something to this effect before..

but there u go  8)

October 19, 1998
a full year before os9 was ever released

Title: Re: mac os x was already planned before 9.0 was even released?
Post by: MacTron on May 09, 2015, 01:59:35 AM

At this time S. Jobs it's at Apple again. What do you think that he brings with him?
LOL.

Title: Re: mac os x was already planned before 9.0 was even released?
Post by: Protools5LEGuy on May 14, 2015, 08:29:17 AM

Before S. Jobs came back to Apple, Ellen cancelled Copland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_%28operating_system%29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_%28operating_system%29)

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In 1996, Apple's newest CEO, Gil Amelio, poached Ellen Hancock from National Semiconductor and put her in charge of engineering in an effort to try to get development back on track. She decided it was best to cancel the project outright and try to find a suitable third-party system to replace it. Development officially ended in August 1996, and after a short search they announced that Apple was buying NeXT in order to use their NeXTSTEP operating system as the basis of a new Mac OS.

Hancock also suggested that Apple should work on improving the existing System 7 while the new system matured. This was released as Mac OS 8 in 1997, and was followed by Mac OS 9 in 1999. The new operating system based on NeXTSTEP shipped in 2001 as Mac OS X.