Though missing some of the nice features of later versions (some of which can be found as test versions to add the missing functionality), this was the basis of what Apple planned to release to the public. Gone were the Next root folders and Dock of 5.0, Rhapsody 5.1 had a look that matched Mac OS 8 in most respects. This was the model for all other versions of Rhapsody to follow. It was mainly a trial run for the PowerPC version and a reminder to developers that Apple was moving forward with this. It still used Next root directories and on the Intel version some OPENSTEP for Intel software ran without any changes at all. It was hardly more than OPENSTEP with a Mac theme applied. They last started porting Apple's MAE (Macintosh Application Environment) for Unix systems to the new OS.Īpple's first release to developers was Rhapsody 5.0. As soon as Apple had OPENSTEP in hand (and released the final update, 4.2) they started on porting it to Apple's PowerPC hardware (not very hard considering that NeXT had NEXTSTEP running on a prototype of their own PowerPC 601 based hardware that was dropped before anyone could use it with the rest of the NeXT hardware division in 1993). When Apple bought NeXT it wanted NeXT's mature operating system as a replacement for the Mac OS and (more importantly) the canceled project call Copland. Originally the NeXT OS was called NEXTSTEP (version 0.8 to 3.3) and later OPENSTEP (versions 4.0 to 4.2) but the last version which was an Apple OS as call Rhapsody (versions 5.0 to 5.6).
#Omniweb 5.6 full version
Rhapsody is the given name for the last full version of what started out as the NeXT OS. It seems to be the part that makes it most notable to those who have heard about it.
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