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To: Bonnie Bear who wrote (30)2/14/1997 1:26:00 AM
From: Francisco A. Tomei, Ph.D.   of 35
 
Hello Bonnie and "Dummy,"

The real interesting fact in the future interaction between Apple and Sun is the fact that any application written for the new Apple MacOS (code-named Rhapsody) should run, without modification of the source code, under Sun Solaris. I will give you some limited details.

Rhapsody is, in part, a port to the PPC of the current OpenStep/Mach OS operating system. The entire OpenStep/Mach OS operating system (version 4.0) currently runs under 3 architectures: Motorola 68040, Sun Sparc and Intel iX86. A previous non-OpenStep-compliant version runs under HP-RISC. Some components also run under DEC Alpha.

OpenStep is a top-to-bottom object-oriented application programming interface (API). OpenStep is in the public domain. The API (sans the Mach OS microkernel) has been ported to Sun Solaris and Windows NT. Rhapsody will presumably consist of the Mach OS microkernel and the OpenStep API plus a Java API and another software layer to provide compatibility with existing MacOS (not Mach) applications.

The implications are clear: within a year, all NEW Mac OS applications could be running under four different architectures: Motorola 68040, Intel iX86, Sun Sparc and Power PC. MacOS could take over the entire platform in its OpenStep/MachOS incarnation or as an API under Windows NT or Sun Solaris. (This is an oversimplified statement.)

Look in

next.com

and

sun.com

for technical details.

Best regards.

--Francisco.
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