Gershwin operating system
- Gershwin operating system
Gershwin was the code name for Apple Computer's next-generation operating system that was proposed to follow Apple's failed Copland project for the Apple Macintosh platform. [ cite web | url=http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/oshistory/6.html | title=Quest for the Operating System | author=Amit Singh | work=kernelthread.com | date=March 5, 2004 | accessdate=2006-07-23 ] Gershwin was supposed to be a true multi-tasking operating system [ cite web | url=http://www.guidebookgallery.org/articles/beyondwindows95 | title=Beyond Windows 95 | author=Michael J. Miller | publisher=PC Magazine | date=October 4, 1995 | accessdate=2006-07-23 ] and feature a reentrant implementation of the Macintosh Toolbox. [ cite web | url=http://www.bebox.nu/articles.php?s=articles/199701xx-PlanBe | title=Plan Be | author=Henry Bortman | coauthors=Jeff Pittelkau | month=January | year=1997 | publisher=MacUser | accessdate=2006-07-23 ]
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