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Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet> wrote:

> 
> But surely it's only the kernel and some of the other code in Rhapsody
> that's being used, and the OpenStep API is being dropped?
> 
> Rowland.

As I understand it the OpenStep API have evolved into the Yellow Box,
which is present in Mac OS X. The major problem that OpenStep had was
it's reliance on Objective C which was a standard unto itself. 

The realy nice thing is that the Yellow Box API's are designed to be
accessed by Java as well as by C, C++ etc. This is a real killer
technology. Java has had problems because there is no strong native
X-platform object foundation on which to develop real x-platform
solutions. Most of the pressure that MS has brought to bear on the Java
camp has been due to intergration of the MFC (Microsoft Foundation
Classses) with Java in Visual J++. This has allowed them to attempt to
drive the java standard due to the diversity of MFC object already
available.

For the UNIX people MacOS X should support Posix API's (1.003.1a
compliant, but not certified) as well as some of the BSD 4.4 extras.
Something for everyone.

For those that are curious, or who want to keep up with development, try
the following urls (Taken from Rhapsody OS Report, see
http://stepwise.com);

WWW:

The Stepwise OS Report
http://www.stepwise.com/StepwiseReport/

Stepwise
http://www.stepwise.com

RhapNet
http://www.macnn.com/rhapnet/

RhapsodyOS.com
http://www.rhapsodyos.com

MacCentral: Rhapsody Roundup
http://www.maccentral.com/features/rhapsody_roundup.shtml

Stone Design's Dev Corner
http://www.stone.com/dev/DevCorner.html

The Rhapsody on Intel Advocacy Site
http://www.of.org/rhaptel/

Version Tracker for Rhapsody
http://www.versiontracker.com/rhapsody/rapnew.shtml

The Rhapsody User
http://www.kagi.com/inai/rhap/

MacOS Rumors
http://www.macosrumors.com

MacWeek
http://www.macweek.com

thessaSOURCE
http://www.thessasource.com/

The Macintosh News Network
http://www.macnn.com

MacInTouch
http://www.macintouch.com

Apple's Rhapsody Developer Site
http://developer.apple.com/rhapsody/index.html

WOSource
http://www.wosource.com/

Rhapsody.it [NOTE: Mostly Italian content.]
http://www.rhapsody-it.com

MacGadget [NOTE: In German.]
http://www.macgadget.de

FTP:

PEAK
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/rhapsody/
http://www.peak.org/openstep/rhapsody/

Peanuts
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/peanuts/

Apple's Rhapsody FTP Developer Site
ftp://dev.apple.com/devworld/Rhapsody/

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