Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Chapter 1 Origins of Mac OS X

          1.1 Apple’s Quest for the Operating System

              1.1.1 Star Trek

              1.1.2 Raptor

              1.1.3 NuKernel

              1.1.4 TalOS

              1.1.5 Copland

              1.1.6 Gershwin

              1.1.7 BeOS

              1.1.8 Plan A

          1.2 The NeXT Chapter

              1.2.1 NEXTSTEP

              1.2.2 OPENSTEP

          1.3 The Mach Factor

              1.3.1 Rochester’s Intelligent Gateway

              1.3.2 Accent

              1.3.3 Mach

              1.3.4 MkLinux

              1.3.5 Musical Names

          1.4 Strategies

              1.4.1 Mac OS 8 and 9

              1.4.2 Rhapsody

          1.5 Toward Mac ...

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