November 25, 1996: A midlevel manager at NeXT contacts Apple about the possibility of Cupertino licensing NeXT’s OpenStep operating system. The phone call sows the seeds of Mac OS X and Apple’s ...

MacOnIntel has posted screenshots from a successful installation of NeXT OpenStep 4.2, the final commercial release of the system software before Apple bought NeXT, onto a MacBook Pro by using the ...

Apple acquired NeXT at the end of 1996, with the plan of using that company’s OpenStep operating system as the foundation for the future of Mac OS. The first plan for that OS was called Rhapsody, and ...

Apparently the IDE drivers for OS don't support the extended INT13 extensions, so all hard disks larger than 8GB are only seen as 8GB, and as having no partition table, so I'm afraid to create one in ...

Today’s rumors that Steve Jobs may introduce an incremental update to OS X called Snow Leopard at his Worldwide Developers Conference keynote provide a powerful reminder of just how effective the ...