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The family tree is slightly off, but it’s not completely chronological. A 40 year old man might still marry a 25 year old woman and have children with her and t

by SllX 6y ago

The family tree is slightly off, but it’s not completely chronological. A 40 year old man might still marry a 25 year old woman and have children with her and the tree would put them on the same line. Your chronology is correct though. I think it was an aesthetic choice to make the grandparents symmetrical, but the only relation the Macintosh has to any other prior system is the Lisa, you could say the Lisa was influenced by the Xerox Alto. The Macintosh Project was founded by Jef Raskin and his vision for the Macintosh was entirely different before Jobs essentially pushed him out. A lot of the Lisa influence comes via Bill Atkinson who designed both QuickDraw and the Lisa user interface and worked on both Lisa and Macintosh. The tree discounts both Copland and Rhapsody as well. While Copland never shipped, much of the tech developed for it did, and while Rhapsody never shipped, Mac OS X Server 1.0 did. The only relation the Apple II has to any of this is they’re computers.

kanzenryu2 6y ago
I read somewhere that nobody had ever identified a technical person who had worked on Rhapsody. Now that's vapourware.
- SllX 6y ago
  It was realized more or less in Mac OS X Server 1.0, which despite its name is more Rhapsody than Mac OS X, and enough people bought it to complain when Apple quickly moved ahead with Mac OS X as we know it and didn’t offer any kind of discount on Server 10.0. EDIT: Not the best quality, but here’s a demo I found on YouTube for those interested: https://youtu.be/HrHNub_vJtA https://youtu.be/HrHNub_vJtA Basically imagine NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP, but with a Platinum skin, the window server is still a Display PostScript interpreter, there is a Classic Environment in the Blue Box, and instead of the Finder you have NeXTSTEP’s Workspace Manager and its still App Kit and Foundation Kit. Carbon isn’t a thing yet, or it’s in early development and hasn’t been announced yet. I don’t recall if the kernel had replaced Driver Kit with IO Kit yet though.

by SllX 6y ago

kanzenryu2 6y ago

I read somewhere that nobody had ever identified a technical person who had worked on Rhapsody. Now that's vapourware.

SllX 6y ago
It was realized more or less in Mac OS X Server 1.0, which despite its name is more Rhapsody than Mac OS X, and enough people bought it to complain when Apple quickly moved ahead with Mac OS X as we know it and didn’t offer any kind of discount on Server 10.0. EDIT: Not the best quality, but here’s a demo I found on YouTube for those interested: https://youtu.be/HrHNub_vJtA https://youtu.be/HrHNub_vJtA Basically imagine NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP, but with a Platinum skin, the window server is still a Display PostScript interpreter, there is a Classic Environment in the Blue Box, and instead of the Finder you have NeXTSTEP’s Workspace Manager and its still App Kit and Foundation Kit. Carbon isn’t a thing yet, or it’s in early development and hasn’t been announced yet. I don’t recall if the kernel had replaced Driver Kit with IO Kit yet though.