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To: soup who wrote (23694)3/30/1999 1:29:00 PM
From: Zen Dollar Round  Read Replies (1) of 213177
 
Had a customer tell me he had OSX running on a G3 with 512MB RAM: "I'm
running 8.5/Blue Box on a RAM Disk. It flies! It's the first time in years that a
MacOS has got me smiling from ear-to-ear!"


If I understand correctly, Mac OS X (Q4 1999?) will be a consumer OS and look much like Mac OS 8.x does today, but with a new kernel and all the abilities a modern operating system should have, such as preemptive multitasking, support for multiple processors, protected memory, etc. It will also include the ability to get to a command line, but that will not be its primary interface.

Mac OS X Server's final release version (also Q4 1999?) will also look much like Mac OS X, but will have the many extra features needed for a complete server OS. It differs from the current release of OS X Server in many ways, including the interface and kernel -- it's essentially a release to fulfill the promise of Rhapsody and appease those who've waited for it.

Does this jive with what we know so far, or am I way off? Can anyone fill in the roadmap for me a bit more? Thanks!
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