by Steven Noble from the February 1997 issue of Australian MacUser magazine Apple computer has bought NeXT Software, and is going to use that company’s high-performance operating system (OS) NeXTstep as the basis of the next major revision of the Mac OS - code-named Rhapsody. This is good news, because NeXTstep has many of the features that bring speed, stability and strength to next-generation operating systems, including protected memory, preemptive multitasking, and a modern virtua...
