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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Monday, February 24, 2003 10:57:20 pm | by MattBrowne | Revert |
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-Gershwin apparently is a MacOs thing
, what
on earth is
it?
+Gershwin was the codename for an ambitious OperatingSystem that was supposed to be released as MacOS 9 by [Apple] in 1998. Successor to the [Copland] project that was cancelled in 1997
, it never really got off the ground and rumor has it that no programmers were ever actively working
on Gershwin. The version of [MacOS] widely known today as MacOS 9 bears little resemblance to Gershwin although
it undoubtedly contains some features that were enhanced from their origins in the [Copland] project, most likely with ideas developed for Gershwin. Some people have tried to suggest that Gershwin was simply renamed to [Rhapsody] and while [Rhapsody] was certainly closer to the ideas of Gershwin than [MacOSX] when it was released, they are fundamentally different OperatingSystems with [Rhapsody] being based on [NeXTStep].
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+Gershwin is also the last name of George Gershwin, a famous American composer who died in 1937. One of his most famous works is called "Rhapsody in Blue".
