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To: Alomex who wrote (13503)	5/12/1998 2:02:00 PM
From: rhet0ric	Respond to of 213177

I made that comment and I stand by it. Developers refused to develop for Rhapsody so Apple dropped it. Yes, they dropped Rhapsody in name. The name was due to die anyway, given that it was a development code name. If the rewritten Carbon apps run on Yellow Box, then the name was all that was dropped, and the developers will all become Rhapsody developers despite their refusal, thanks to Avie and Steve's cleverness. Microsoft said Win95/98 will be folded into WinNT. Does that mean they're killing Win95/98? What if they instead decided to base the next OS on NT, but call it Win99 or Win2000? Would that mean they'd killed WinNT? Apple essentially chose the latter. How many years will it have taken MS to converge Win3.1 and WinNT? 10 years? Win95/98 was essentially a bridge OS, getting developers to rewrite their Win3.1 apps as Win32 apps that would eventually run on WinNT. Apple is doing this same maneuver, but without the need for a bridge OS. If Apple hadn't squandered years doing Pink/Taligent/Copland, it would only have taken 3 years. rhet0ric