Rhapsody (operating system)

Presentation

Rhapsody was the name given by Apple to the Operating system which was to succeed Mac OS 8. Its development began fine 1996 after the repurchase of NeXT.

Its architecture derived from that of NeXTSTEP but it preserved many common points with Mac OS, like its Graphical interface and compatibility with the applications traditional Macintosh. It was to turn as well under processor PowerPC (Macintosh) as x86 (compatible PC). Rhapsody was conceived around a Micro-noyau Mach and of an BSD-Unix underlayer.

It for the first time was presented to the World Wide Developers Conférence of 1997, the final version being planned for spring 1998. The version developers was available in fine times 1997, but the Rhapsody project was abandoned when Apple presented Mac OS X in June 1998. Rhapsody nevertheless was marketed in the form of Mac OS X Server in 2000. The code of Rhapsody was integrated in Darwin, the core Open source of Mac OS X. Mac OS X left finally only in 2001, that is to say 5 years after the beginning of the development of Rhapsody.

Necessary configuration

Rhapsody To develop Release DR-1 & DR-2 for PowerPC

To have a Macintosh including/understanding 32 Me sharp mémorie and 750 Me of hard drive. For the models, Apple ensures operation on Macintosh 8500, 8600, 9500 and 9600. According to users, it will as well function on the 7300, 7500 and the 7600 but only with one accelerating chart 604e.

Rhapsody DR-2 also functions on the PowerPC G3 like on laptops 3400,2400, G3. On the other hand, for any use on G3, you will have to install an additional driver.

Rhapsody To develop Release DR-1 & DR-2 for Intel

Rhapsody for Intel is provided with a whole of driver for PC. Unfortunately this list is rather reduced and you will not be able to almost find any driver for recent material.

Comings out date

See too

External bonds

the page of resources of Shaw a page impossible to circumvent on Rhapsody
Toastytech GUI Gallery Captures screen of version DR2?
" Rhapsody" on OSData.com Technical informations on Rhapsody

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