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From: cbm@well.sf.ca.us (Chris Muir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: I know what System 8 will be...
Summary: Blue = 7.0, Pink = 8.0, Red = x.0
Message-ID: <25026@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 25 May 91 20:23:36 GMT
References: <34788@mimsy.umd.edu> <1991May22.233041.28470@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <1991May22.233041.28470@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu 
(Evan Torrie) writes:
>  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.

As I understand it, there was a lot of next generation OS research going on
at Apple in the late eighties. At some time they seperated into two groups,
Blue and Pink. Blue turned into System 7 (there is some corroboration in the
name of the System 7 "SWAT team", the "Blue Meanies"). Pink was given a little
more breathing room to create system 8. There was a really "cute" init that 
got smuggled out of Apple a few years ago, the "Pink Init". Every time you
typed "blue" into a text edit field this init would erase it and type "pink"
instead. 

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