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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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+The premiere of Mac OS X Server 1.0 was probably the closest OS ever released to mach the vision of Rhapsody. However today the modern codebase of OS X server 10.2.3 is on par with Mac OS X (10.2.3) (plus additional handy server GUI configuration & maintenance facilities) and no longer resembles Rhapsody/NextStep any more than the regular "client" version of Mac OS X.
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".