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Rhapsody was the code name given to Apple Computer's next-generation operating system during the period of its development between Apple's purchase of NeXT in late 1996 and the announcement of Mac OS X in 1998. Image File history File links This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Image File history File links This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Jump to: navigation, search QuickTime is a multimedia technology developed by Apple Computer, capable of handling various formats of digital video, sound, text, animation, music, and immersive virtual reality panoramic images. ... Jump to: navigation, search Apple Computer, Inc. ... Jump to: navigation, search In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ... The NeXT logo, designed by Paul Rand. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Jump to: navigation, search Mac OS X is the latest version of the Macintosh operating system, and is designed and developed by Apple Computer to run on their Macintosh line of personal computers. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

The defining features of the operating system were a Mach microkernel, a BSD operating system layer, the Yellow Box object-oriented frameworks from NeXTSTEP, and the Blue Box compatibility environment for running "Classic" Macintosh applications. Mach is an operating system kernel developed at Carnegie-Mellon University to support operating system research, primarily distributed and parallel computation. ... Jump to: navigation, search Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) is the Unix derivative distributed by the University of California, Berkeley starting in the 1970s. ... A Cocoa application being developed using Xcode. ... NeXTSTEP Desktop NEXTSTEP is the original object-oriented, multitasking operating system that NeXT Computer, Inc. ... Classic is an emulation layer in Mac OS X that allows applications written for earlier versions of Mac OS to run on OS X systems, without having to boot the system using one of those versions. ... Jump to: navigation, search Original 1984 Mac OS desktop Current 2005 Mac OS X desktop Mac OS, which stands for Macintosh Operating System, is Apple Computer’s name for the first operating systems for Macintosh computers. ...

Rhapsody was first demonstrated at the 1997 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). There were two subsequent Developer Releases for computers with Intel x86 or PowerPC processors. The full version was intended for release in spring of 1998; ultimately, it was released in the form of Mac OS X Server 1.0 in 1999 and its code was forked into Darwin, the open source underpinnings of Mac OS X. Jump to: navigation, search 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... WWDC 2005, at Moscone Center The Worldwide Developers Conference, commonly abbreviated WWDC, is an annual trade show for Apple developers. ... x86 or 80x86 is the generic name of a microprocessor architecture first developed and manufactured by Intel. ... PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance, known as AIM. Originally intended for workstations, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors as well. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Mac OS X Server 1. ... In software, a project fork or branch happens when a developer (or a group of them) takes code from a project and starts to develop independently of the rest. ... Hexley, the mascot of Darwin. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Jump to: navigation, search Mac OS X is the latest version of the Macintosh operating system, and is designed and developed by Apple Computer to run on their Macintosh line of personal computers. ...

The name is likely a reference to two things:

• To composer George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." In addition, Gershwin's name was used by Apple as the code name another next-generation operating system, the successor to the never-completed Copland operating system (Copland itself was named after another American composer, Aaron Copland). Apple at the time used a series of music-related code names for operating systems, including Tempo (Mac OS 8), Allegro (Mac OS 8.5), and Sonata (Mac OS 9).
• To Purdue University's oft-utilised NeXT shareware and source FTP repository, which was located at an assortment of music-inspired domain names, among them symphony.cc.purdue.edu, sonata.cc.purdue.edu, and rhapsody.cc.purdue.edu.

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See also

• Copland

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External links

• Toastytech GUI Gallery - Screenshots of Rhapsody Developer Release 2