7 Apr
2007
7 Apr
'07
3:52 a.m.
Jim Leonard wrote:
Zane H. Healy wrote:
It sure was. I saw Mac OS X running on a 233MHz Pentium II at one of
our Seattle dev houses. This was back in 1999.
Obtaining it was a matter of:
1. Asking about it
2. Getting a denial that it existed
3. A week later, an anonymous package in brown paper showed up with some
unmarked CDs with no return address.
I swear I am not making any of that up.
You should have read the rest of what I wrote in that message. Namely the
following.
Did a copy
of this x86 Mac OS ever leak out onto the net?
Curt
To the best of my knowledge no. As far as I know this was never seeded to
developers. > OTOH, Rhapsody with the classic Mac OS interface
was seeded. I forget
> if it was DR2 or DR3 that first sported the Aqua interface, and the first
> Developer release or two only ran on x86 boxes. The "Prelude to
> Rhapsody" release first given out an the WWDC and then sent to
> developers was stock OPENSTEP 4.2 and while intended to run on
> x86 could apparently also be loaded on NeXT 68k systems as well
> as the correct HP PA-RISC or Sun Sparc systems.
The OS in question is "Star Trek" not "Rhapsody". "Star
Trek" was done
in house, and was roughly "System 7" era. I don't remember when exactly it
came out. I realize I'm on a sleep deficit here, but I'm getting tired of
people telling me I'm wrong, and that Mac OS X was released for the x86.
Read the whole message people! What I said was never released was "Mac OS"
not "Mac OS X"!
BTW, anyone that was a Registered Developer at the time had copies of all of
this.
This is also why I'd been saying for years that Mac OS X would eventually be
on Intel CPU's.
Zane (who is very grumpy and tired)