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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Apple_Rhapsody_screenshot.png) Rhapsody, with a drawing application and a QuickTime movie playing | |
| Developer | Apple Computer |
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| OS family | |
| Working state | Historic |
| Source model | Closed source |
| Latest release | Developer Release 2 / May 1998 |
| Platforms | PowerPC, IA-32 |
| Kernel type | Hybrid kernel |
| Influenced | macOS |
| Influenced by | NeXTSTEP, Classic Mac OS, Copland |
| License | Only released to developers |
| Preceded by | OPENSTEP for Mach |
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Rhapsody is an operating system that was developed by Apple Computer after its purchase of NeXT in the late 1990s. It is the fifth major release of the Mach-based operating system that was developed at NeXT in the late 1980s, previously called OPENSTEP and NEXTSTEP.[1] Rhapsody was targeted to developers for a transition period between the Classic Mac OS and Mac OS X. Rhapsody represented a new and exploratory strategy for Apple, more than an operating system, and runs on x86-based PCs and on Power Macintosh.
Rhapsody's OPENSTEP[a] based Yellow Box API frameworks were ported to Windows NT for creating cross-platform applications. Eventually, the non-Apple platforms were discontinued, and later versions consist primarily of the OPENSTEP operating system ported to Power Macintosh, merging the Copland-originated GUI of Mac OS 8 with that of OPENSTEP. Several existing classic Mac OS frameworks were ported, including QuickTime and AppleSearch. Rhapsody can run Mac OS 8 and its applications in a paravirtualization layer called Blue Box for backward compatibility during migration to Mac OS X.
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