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  Cocoa (API) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Most systems have responded to this problem by having a layer of intermediate objects known as "commanders", which are in some ways similar to mini-controllers.
Customization of the system takes place, as it does on all systems, but in a typical application the amount of code dedicated to "fixing" the base classes is likely to be a very small amount compared to other frameworks, such as (additional info and facts about MacApp) MacApp.
Indeed, one of the hallmarks of a RAD system is that they allow you to access the GUI state directly and very easily, and the data is generally "typeless" (Variant under VB), allowing the code to be rather simplified.
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 Win32_OperatingSystem class [WMI]
Any operating system that can be installed on a Windows system is a descendent or member of this class.
For operating systems with no virtual memory, typically this value is equal to the total amount of physical memory minus the memory used by the BIOS and OS.
For some operating systems, this value may be infinity, in which case 0 (zero) should be entered.
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 List of operating systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
AMIX (Amiga porting of Unix System V release 3.1 with Amiga A2500UX and SVr4.0 with Amiga A3000UX.
System V (a release of ATandT Unix, 'SVr4' was the 4th minor release)
NNIX - an operating system for running programs in MMIX assembly language, which are both used as (fictional) illustrations in The Art of Computer Programming.
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 Rhapsody
operating system that includes capabilities from the NeXT and Macintosh operating systems.
Rhapsody is made by Apple Computers and runs on Intel/Cyrix/AMD Pentium and Motorola/IBM PowerPC and will have a Run Time Library for Windows.
And owners of G3 computers may also be able to sue, because Apple had promised that Rhapsody would be a desktop operating system, then later changed their plans to make it a server-only OS.
www.osdata.com /oses/rhapsody.htm   (1561 words)

  
 Rhapsody - Computing Reference - eLook.org
Rhapsody includes four components: the Core OS, the Blue Box (the implementation of the Mac OS within Rhapsody), the Yellow Box, and the Advanced Mac Look and Feel.
"Rhapsody Developer Release" is a developer-only release of Rhapsody, scheduled for release in late 1997.
"Rhapsody Premier Release" will be the second release of Rhapsody, scheduled for early 1998.
www.elook.org /computing/rhapsody.htm   (192 words)

  
 MSN Tech & Gadgets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Rhapsody will combine the foundation of the NextStep operating system with Apple's standalone technologies, such as the QuickTime Media Layer and OpenDoc.
If Rhapsody were to run on Intel-based boxes, Apple could then pitch its operating system to the likes of Compaq Computer and Dell.
As Apple moves forward with development of Rhapsody, Apple chairman and CEO Gilbert Amelio has said he would be a "damn fool" not to consider that possibility.
msn-cnet.com.com /2100-1001_3-269702.html   (466 words)

  
 EXN.ca | Technology
Last month, Rhapsody was identified as the core technology for Apple's next Macintosh OS, Mac OS X (ten), as well as a possible server OS.
A farewell to Rhapsody may be premature, but in terms of an evolving product, the OS will not be part of Apple's long-term plans.
The version of Rhapsody for Power Macintoshes was code-named the "Blue Box," and "Yellow Box" was a code-name for Rhapsody development on Windows NT, Windows 95 and eventually Mac OS platforms.
www.exn.ca /Stories/1998/06/09/59.asp   (791 words)

  
 Apple Rhapsody Yellow Box for Windows
The Yellow Box is the component in the Rhapsody architecture which provides the ability for Rhapsody applications to be developed and deployed on various operating systems like the Mach, Mac OS, Windows 95, Windows NT (version 4), Solaris, and HP-UX.
Rhapsody applications which utilize the Yellow Box are Windows applications as far as Windows 95/NT is concerned.
This is another example of how Rhapsody applications retain their functionality, even when not running on the Rhapsody operating system.
mac-guild.org /rhapsody/yellow-windows.html   (1785 words)

  
 Apple's new operating system   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Rhapsody will work on the server side of new Network Computers (NCs) to be released by Apple in the spring of 1998.
The Rhapsody Developer Release is intended to allow software developers to begin creating the applications that will run on the new operating system.
Apple expects Macintosh systems shipped from early 1997 to be able to run the new operating system.
www.indiana.edu /~ucspubs/ucstimes/1997/t314   (760 words)

  
 Apple's Hancock evangelizes at PC Expo with Rhapsody OS - Computerworld   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Rhapsody retains a complete implementation of the Mac OS -- not an emulation layer -- something diehard Macintosh developers demanded.
In what she described as the first demonstration of these Rhapsody features, Hancock showed QuickDraw 3D running on Rhapsody and illustrated how QuickDraw 3D services could be called from Java code.
Rhapsody's developer's release will be available later this year, the premiere release is scheduled to be out in early 1998, and the unified release is due out by mid-1998.
www.computerworld.com /printthis/1997/0,4814,20995,00.html   (466 words)

  
 NEXTSTEP Operating System
The developed operating system NEXTSTEP is UNIX related and also contains parts of the BSD and the Mach Kernel, therefore it is compatibly to BSD (4.2 BSD release).
The concept of the bundle of the computer system "Cube" and operating system was given up and the operating system was sold separately in 1993.
Rhapsody was the code name for the new operating system of Apple with BSD 4.4 and OPENSTEP technology.
www.operating-system.org /betriebssystem/_english/bs-nextstep.htm   (269 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Rhapsody has all the features of a modern operating system and more.
Rhapsody is based on NeXTUs operating system called OpenStep.
With the introduction of Rhapsody, the look and feel of the OS will be different compared to the current Macintosh OS.
komar.cs.stthomas.edu /qm425/veng3.htm   (807 words)

  
 Apple's Announcements to its developers
I know Apples WWDC was a couple of weeks ago, and even the printed press has given reports of it by now, but I still think it would be nice if I at least listed the big happenings of it, and gave a run down of why I think they were important.
It is being based on the operating system of NeXT Computing which was bought out by Apple.
The Blue box is the part of the operating system containing the same API's as today's MacOS, allowing current Macintosh programs to be run under Rhapsody.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/macintosh/1914   (320 words)

  
 Apple announces Mac OS X - Computerworld   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
That decision resulted in the abortive Copland operating system effort that was jettisoned in August 1996 after several years and tens of millions of dollars.
The repositioning of Rhapsody makes sense, according to independent Macintosh analyst Pieter Hartsook in Saratoga, Calif. Developers can now modify their existing Mac programs for Mac OS X rather than be forced to write all-new ones for Rhapsody.
Reactions to the company's new operating system strategy were mixed, leaving a number of developers wondering about the long-term prospects for Rhapsody and associated development tools.
www.computerworld.com /printthis/1998/0,4814,18852,00.html   (1123 words)

  
 BBC News | AMERICAS | Apple updates operating system
Since the operating system was introduced in 1984, the OS was being asked to support a complex range of functions and hardware never envisaged 17 years ago, he said.
And during the last 10 years of work to overhaul the operating system, the company has gone through three chief executives and at least as many abortive attempts to bring a modern OS to market.
Also, the operating system will not have the ability to write CDs or play DVD movies, which Mr Bailey said was more embarrassing than critical.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1238000/1238769.stm   (1133 words)

  
 Apple to Preview New Operating System
There, the faithful and the skeptical will convene for a first look at the operating system, code-named Rhapsody, that Apple hopes will restore the company's reputation for software that is as innovative as it is easy to use.
In an interview last week with Macweek, a trade magazine, Amelio disclosed that a core component of Rhapsody, known as the Yellow Box, would work on personal computers based on the Intel Corporation's microprocessors, and would run on either of the Microsoft Corporation's operating systems, Windows 95 or NT.
This means that applications written for Rhapsody could run on non-Macintosh PC's -- a departure for Apple, which has always concentrated on producing its own versions of software for its own type of hardware.
partners.nytimes.com /library/cyber/week/051397apple.html   (853 words)

  
 JakeO.com - History of the C Programming Language
Thompson had had some previous experience with the BCPL system language, which was invented by Martin Richards in the mid-1960s, however it was too slow and lacked the run-time support that Thompson thought was necessary [Pratt, 472].
C exists on many non-Unix systems as well; "...the languages invasion of other environments suggests more fundamental merits."[Ritchie, 685] C thrives in the consumer sector were Unix does not come near the market share held by Microsoft's Windows and Apple's MacOS.
For example, the "accident of syntax" for the indirection operator becomes a natural oddity to the seasoned programmer, and the array and pointer confusion for beginners vanishes quickly with experience.
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 Status Register 7-98
The Somerset design facility had been funded jointly and operated by IBM and Motorola in an effort to expand their share of the market for desktop processors, but today's move reflects an ongoing trend by both companies to focus on the rapidly expanding market for "embedded" chips.
Operating at 12 megabits per second, information is sent over USB at up to 100 times faster than prior generation connections.
One of the highlights was the introduction of the new GEOS operating system upgrade known as Wheels 64.
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 FindArticles search for "Operating systems / Product d..."   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
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 TrueType & PostScript Type 1: What's the Difference?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Depending on the particular program being used and the operating system it’s run under, there may be upper and lower limits to the size the font can be scaled to, but few users will ever encounter these limits.
It rapidly became obvious to the major system software creators (Apple, Microsoft, and later IBM) that it was important to have scaleable font technology supported at the level of the operating system itself.
These operating systems will rasterize TrueType fonts for the screen, and handle the sending of them to the printer, whether as bitmaps or as fonts in some format the printer can understand.
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 Softpanorama University Unix/Linux Internals Course and Links
The number of system calls has quadrupled, more or less, depending on what you mean by "system call." The first edition of Advanced UNIX Programming focused on only about 70 genuine kernel system calls—for example, open, read, and write; but not library calls like fopen, fread, and fwrite.
Another approach for teaching operating systems is to provide a controlled runtime and development environment using a simulator.
While BSD is considered an 'old' operating system by some people, those of us who work on it tend to view it more as a 'mature' codebase which has various components modified, extended, or replaced with modern code.
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 Rhapsody questions still abound | CNET News.com
As expected, Apple Computer (AAPL) has decided that the Mach kernel that forms the basis of the NextStep OS will also be the foundation for the upcoming Rhapsody operating system.
Metrowerks, which promised to support Rhapsody development with its popular CodeWarrior toolkit by May. The company also announced that this summer it would release software to speed the port of System 7 applications over to Rhapsody.
"At Macworld, we indicated that Rhapsody will be based on a robust operating system foundation that features full preemptive multitasking, memory protection, and [symmetric multiprocessing] and we committed to announce our choice for the core OS within a month.
news.com.com /2100-1001-267947.html   (1050 words)

  
 Server Operating Systems Technical Comparison
There is an entire section of pages on individual operating systems, all formatted in the same order for easy comparison.
For technical persons: The system components area goes into detail about the inner workings of an operating system and the individual operating systems pages provide some technical information.
For example, a particular operating system may be the best technical choice, but may be too expensive.
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 ISC DHCP v2 Info
Fix an obscure case where dhcpd is started by the /etc/rc system with exactly the same pid each time, dhcpd.pid is not erased on reboot, and therefore dhcpd would detect a server (itself) with the pid in dhcpd.pid and decide that another server was running and exit.
On systems that use the socket API, the interface needs to then be reconfigured with the 0.0.0.0 address so that it can be used to get a new address.
If a client explicitly requests a lease that's been abandoned, it's probably the system that was answering pings on that address, so let it have the lease.
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 OPERATING SYSTEM - Apple tunes up with Rhapsody - vnunet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Apple has made the most significant change to its operating system strategy since the launch of the Macintosh in 1984.
Called Rhapsody, the new system will offer Unix features like preemptive multitasking, memory protection and symmetric multiprocessing.
The new operating system will also run Motorola 68000 applications in the same way the current generation of PowerMacs do.
www.vnunet.com /news/17901   (384 words)

  
 Salon | 21st: To Be or not to Be
are just beginning to wind down from the months-long push to develop a version of their brand-new operating system, the BeOS, for Intel's processors.
Rhapsody operating system -- with fully supported symmetric multiprocessing (which means every application written for Be can harness multiple processors on a single computer) and multithreading, which allows many programs to hum along at a nice clip simultaneously.
Meanwhile, fans of high-end Silicon Graphics systems may find it appealing to switch to the vastly cheaper BeOS -- and bring their favorite UNIX programs with them.
archive.salon.com /21st/feature/1998/03/04feature.html   (754 words)

  
 Business Week Online/Microsoft Watch
He also raised the budding success of the Linux operating system as further proof that other operating systems can thrive.
Tevanian said Apple pulled the plug on Rhapsody when software developers refused to rewrite Mac applications for Rhapsody because Apple would never sell enough of its new operating system in a Windows-dominated market.
And he claimed Rhapsody was doomed by a poor product concept -- one requiring massive rewrites of applications.
www.businessweek.com /microsoft/updates/up81104b.htm   (863 words)

  
 Wired News: Apple Must Drum Up Rhapsody for New OS
Rhapsody's kernel would also have better memory protection than the Mac OS - so when an application crashes, the system will not.
On a Rhapsody system running on Intel machines, the setup and look and feel will appear to be the same to the end user.
Existing Windows users are more likely to want a native Windows application, hence the promise to Apple developers that their software will run on a multitude of platforms loses a lot of its appeal, he added.
www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,3866,00.html   (1086 words)

  
 CHEP Abstract   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
However, workstations are more expensive than PCs and Macintoshes and do require a system manager for day-to-day tasks such as disk backup, adding users, and setting up print queues.
Apple's new Rhapsody operating system is based on UNIX and simultaneously runs UNIX and commercial Macintosh applications such as word processing.
With two operating systems running alternately, a system manager would have to catch each running operating system to backup all disks.
www.hep.net /chep98/197.html   (248 words)

  
 Rhapsody In Blue: Apple OS X Delivers - IT Channel - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness
OS X Server is built on the Mach 2.5 microkernel, the crown jewel of what was the NeXTstep operating system and one of the building blocks of the now defunct Rhapsody operating system.
The operating system is compatible with a number of third-party RAID solutions; Apple does not supply one.
At the heart of any reliable server operating system reside features designed to prevent system crashes and evenly distribute the server workload.
www.crn.com /it-channel/18829012   (986 words)

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