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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NeXT generation of Macs
Message-ID: <744@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 18:13:19 GMT
References: <1489@pur-phy>
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State U., E. Lansing MI
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In-reply-to: sho@pur-phy's message of 30 Sep 88 07:17:01 GMT

In article <1489@pur-phy>, sho@pur-phy (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>I know everyone's excited about the NeXT machine, but what are the
>rumors for Apple's direction in the future?  I know they are working
>on a lot of things: sound, IPC, multitasking, NuGraph, and the fabled
>rewrite of the system, but I'm interested to know what actual products
>are on the slate, besides the laptop.  At the moment, it seems like

  Well, a few tidbits I've heard from people follow.  I have
absolutely no idea how much of this is true, though I suspect it's at
least fairly close.
  Apple is supposed to be working on a true virtual memory,
multitasking operating system, which will be more-or-less (99%?)
compatible with existing applications (read: a much better
MultiFinder).  They are putting in a lot of effort on this system (one
person I talked to said Apple is putting more effort into their new
Mac OS than any other software development).  Release date?  I don't
know, but I suspect late this year or sometime next year.
  I've also heard they are working on a multiuser system, based around
the 68030.  I don't know any details, except that it's supposed to
support 12 users.  My guess is that this also entails having some new
bitmapped terminals (on Appletalk?) to communicate with the machine;
maybe we'll see 68000-based terminals implementing the user interface,
and a 68030 computation/file server.  But that's just a guess.
  Just some rumors...but those are always fun, right?

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