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From: folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: I know what System 8 will be...
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Date: 22 May 91 20:46:19 GMT
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Or at least a Wall Street Journal article caught my eye. They were discussing
Microsoft's efforts on a portable DOS/Windows. They mentioned that Apple was
rumored to be working on a portable OS as well. Then, the interesting part:

   Now people close to Apple say the company's goals are even more ambitious
   than Microsoft's. Apple has assembled a secret team of at least 100
   engineers on a software project code-names "Pink." The new system software,
   still at least a few years away from completion, is being designed to run
   on everything from a laptop to a mainframe.

   What's more, "Pink" is supposed to work on machines powered by dozens of
   processors, including some parallel-processing hardware that will keep pace
   with the fastest computers of today.

If "a few years" turns out to be two years, it would be perfect timing for
System 8 or at least a System 8 alternative. So maybe System 8 will be pink
with an oldMacOSVirtualOS running on top of it?
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Wayne Folta          (folta@cs.umd.edu  128.8.128.8)