Gershwin operating system
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After the Copland debacle, Apple's need for a new operating system was more dire than ever. Focus shifted briefly to the "effort" named Gershwin, which was to include the painfully elusive memory protection, among other things.
Gershwin was the code name for Apple Computer's next-generation operating system that was proposed to follow Apple's failed Copland project for the Apple Macintosh platform.[1] Gershwin was supposed to be a true multi-tasking operating system[2] and feature a reentrant implementation of the Macintosh Toolbox.[3] However, it was apparently nothing more than a code-name, and it is believed that nobody ever worked on Gershwin.
[edit] References
- ^ Amit Singh (March 5, 2004). "Quest for the Operating System". kernelthread.com. http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/oshistory/6.html. Retrieved on 2006-07-23.
- ^ Michael J. Miller (October 4, 1995). "Beyond Windows 95". PC Magazine. http://www.guidebookgallery.org/articles/beyondwindows95. Retrieved on 2006-07-23.
- ^ Henry Bortman; Jeff Pittelkau (January 1997). "Plan Be". MacUser. http://www.bebox.nu/articles.php?s=articles/199701xx-PlanBe. Retrieved on 2006-07-23.
