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Star Trek was the code name given to a prototype project at Apple Computer during 1992 and 1993. Star Trek was to be a version of the Macintosh operating system which ran on Intel-compatible x86 personal computers (at that time, the Mac OS ran only on Apple's own computers based on the Motorola 68000 architecture). The project's slogan was "To boldly go where no Mac has gone before." Prototypes or prototypical instances combine the most representative attributes of a category. ...
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An operating system (OS) is a computer program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ...
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC, SEHK: 4335), founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation, is an American multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ...
x86 or 80x86 is the generic name of a microprocessor architecture first developed and manufactured by Intel. ...
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The Motorola 68000 is a 32-bit CISC microprocessor from Motorola. ...
The developers eventually reached a point where they could boot an Intel 486 PC (with very specific hardware) into System 7, and on-screen it was indistinguishable from a Mac. However, every program needed to be ported to the new x86 architecture in order to run. Supposedly programs could be ported with little effort because Apple developed equivalent headers for x86. Intel i486 DX2- top view The Intel i486 (also called 486 or 80486) is a range of Intel CISC microprocessors which is part of the Intel x86 family of processors. ...
System 7 (codenamed Big Bang) was a version of Mac OS, the operating system of the Apple Macintosh computer. ...
The project was a joint development with Novell (although Apple provided the majority of engineers). Novell at the time were one the leaders of cross-platform file-servers - and the plan was that Novell would market the resulting OS as a challenge to Microsoft Windows. However, the project was cancelled in mid-1993 because of political infighting, personnel issues, and the questionable marketability of such a project. Fear that the new operating system would hurt Apple's hardware sales presumably played a role.
Legacies Although a direct x86 port was never released to the public, one could run the classic Mac OS on non-Mac computers through emulation and the development of these was spurred by the failure of the Star Trek project.[citation needed] Two of the more popular Macintosh emulators are vMac and Basilisk II, both written by third parties. This article is about emulation in computer science. ...
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History Basilisk II is an open source software emulator which emulates the 680x0-based Apple Macintosh computer on a variety of operating systems, including BeOS, Linux, Windows NT and Mac OS X. The last version of Mac OS that can be run within Basilisk II is Mac OS 8. ...
Ten years after Project Star Trek, it became possible to natively run Darwin, the Unix-based core of Mac OS X, on the x86 platform, by virtue of its open source Apple Public Source License and NeXT base. However, the OS X graphical user interface, named Aqua, is proprietary and is not included with the x86 port of Darwin. Hexley, the mascot of Darwin Darwin is a free, open source, Unix-like operating system first released by Apple Computer in 2000. ...
Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ...
Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ...
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. ...
The Apple Public Source License is the open source license under which Apple Computers Darwin Project was released. ...
A graphical user interface (or GUI, often pronounced gooey), is a particular case of user interface for interacting with a computer which employs graphical images and widgets in addition to text to represent the information and actions available to the user. ...
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Apple ran a similar project to Star Trek for Mac OS X. This project was rumored to be code-named Marklar (although often referred to as "Star Trek, the NeXT Generation" on rumor sites). Marklar's task was to keep Mac OS X and all supporting applications (including iLife and Xcode) running on the x86 architecture as well as that of the PowerPC. Marklar was revealed by Apple's CEO Steve Jobs in June 2005, when he announced the Macintosh transition to Intel processors starting in 2006. Marklar was rumored to be the codename for the project at Apple Computer that kept Mac OS X compiling and running on the Intel x86 microprocessor architecture. ...
iLife 06 Box iLife is a collection of software products created by Apple, designed for Mac OS X, used to create, organize, view and manipulate digital content. ...
Xcode is Apple Computers IDE for developing applications and other software for Mac OS X. It is shipped free with Mac OS X. First introduced on October 24, 2003 along with the release of Mac OS X v10. ...
See also The Apple Intel transition was the process of changing the CPU of Macintosh computers from PowerPC processors to Intel x86 processors. ...
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