Work with Apple's Rhapsody Operating System which Allows Simultaneous UNIX Program Development, UNIX Program Execution, and PC Application Execution

摘要

Over the past decade, UNIX workstations have provided a very powerful programdevelopment environment. However, workstations are more expensive than PCs andMacintoshes and require a system manager for day-to-day tasks such as diskbackup, adding users, and setting up print queues. Native commercial softwarefor system maintenance and "PC applications" has been lacking under UNIX.Apple's new Rhapsody operating system puts the current MacOS on a NeXT UNIXfoundation and adds an enhanced NeXTSTEP object oriented developmentenvironment called Yellow Box. Rhapsody simultaneously runs UNIX and commercialMacintosh applications such as word processing or spreadsheets. Thus a UNIXdetector Monte Carlo can run for days in the background at the same time as acommercial word processing program. And commercial programs such as DantzRetrospect are being made available to make disk backup easy under Rhapsody.Apple has announced that in 1999 they intend to be running Rhapsody, or MacOS Xas it will be called in the commercial release, on all their newer computers.MacOS X may be of interest to those who have trouble hiring expert UNIX systemmanagers; and to those who would prefer to have a single computer and operatingsystem on their desktop that serves both the needs of UNIX program developmentand running commercial applications, simultaneously. We present our experiencesrunning UNIX programs and Macintosh applications under the Rhapsody DR2Developer Release.