folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) (05/23/91)
Or at least a Wall Street Journal article caught my eye. They were discussing Microsoft's efforts on a portable DOS/Windows. They mentioned that Apple was rumored to be working on a portable OS as well. Then, the interesting part: Now people close to Apple say the company's goals are even more ambitious than Microsoft's. Apple has assembled a secret team of at least 100 engineers on a software project code-names "Pink." The new system software, still at least a few years away from completion, is being designed to run on everything from a laptop to a mainframe. What's more, "Pink" is supposed to work on machines powered by dozens of processors, including some parallel-processing hardware that will keep pace with the fastest computers of today. If "a few years" turns out to be two years, it would be perfect timing for System 8 or at least a System 8 alternative. So maybe System 8 will be pink with an oldMacOSVirtualOS running on top of it? -- Wayne Folta (folta@cs.umd.edu 128.8.128.8)
torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) (05/23/91)
folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes: >Or at least a Wall Street Journal article caught my eye. They were discussing >Microsoft's efforts on a portable DOS/Windows. They mentioned that Apple was >rumored to be working on a portable OS as well. Then, the interesting part: Yes, in its recent reorganisation, Apple created a Portable OS development group. That seems pretty certain to me that they're doing something in this area. > Now people close to Apple say the company's goals are even more ambitious > than Microsoft's. Apple has assembled a secret team of at least 100 > engineers on a software project code-names "Pink." The new system software, > still at least a few years away from completion, is being designed to run > on everything from a laptop to a mainframe. Actually, I heard this code-name "Pink" over a year ago in a speech by Jerry Borrell (MacWorld's editor). At that time, he seemed to think that Pink was the code-name for Apple's next generation imaging environment (i.e. a replacement for QuickDraw). When I asked him when we could expect to see this, he seemed to think it was more a System 9, or System 10 job. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu Fame, fame, fame... What's it good for? Ab-so-lute-ly nothing
cbm@well.sf.ca.us (Chris Muir) (05/26/91)
In article <1991May22.233041.28470@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes: > Actually, I heard this code-name "Pink" over a year ago in a speech by >Jerry Borrell (MacWorld's editor). At that time, he seemed to think that >Pink was the code-name for Apple's next generation imaging environment >(i.e. a replacement for QuickDraw). When I asked him when we could expect >to see this, he seemed to think it was more a System 9, or System 10 job. As I understand it, there was a lot of next generation OS research going on at Apple in the late eighties. At some time they seperated into two groups, Blue and Pink. Blue turned into System 7 (there is some corroboration in the name of the System 7 "SWAT team", the "Blue Meanies"). Pink was given a little more breathing room to create system 8. There was a really "cute" init that got smuggled out of Apple a few years ago, the "Pink Init". Every time you typed "blue" into a text edit field this init would erase it and type "pink" instead. -- __________________________________________________________________________ Chris Muir | "There is no language in our cbm@well.sf.ca.us | lungs to tell the world just {hplabs,pacbell,ucbvax,apple}!well!cbm | how we feel" - A. Partridge