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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
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Subject: Re: I know what System 8 will be...
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Date: 22 May 91 23:30:41 GMT
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folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes:

>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:

  Yes, in its recent reorganisation, Apple created a Portable OS development
group.  That seems pretty certain to me that they're doing something in this
area.

>   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.

  Actually, I heard this code-name "Pink" over a year ago in a speech by
Jerry Borrell (MacWorld's editor).  At that time, he seemed to think that
Pink was the code-name for Apple's next generation imaging environment 
(i.e. a replacement for QuickDraw).  When I asked him when we could expect
to see this, he seemed to think it was more a System 9, or System 10 job.

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