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Originally Posted by Barnes
Of course. With the NeXT tech and people as well. Apple had many failed attempts at creating a modern OS post System 7 like Copland. Mac OS 8 used some of Copland's features like a multithreaded Finder and HFS + but it didn't deserve a full version bump. Jobs did it to get out of having to license to clone makers who were killing Apple at the time. OS 9 was a stop gap and allowed the next new modern OS to use the nice round number 10 or X. All OS 9 added was a kind of multi user environment. Hardly worth a full version bump.
Rhapsody was one of their attempts and was based on OpenStep, developed by NeXT. They ended up just buying NeXT and Rhapsody became OS X.
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There were a lot of rumours at the time that Apple was considering buying up Be Inc. and that BeOS would evolve into the next big iteration of the Mac OS. Apple was offering $125 million, but the Be CEO was holding out for $200 million, and Apple moved their attention to acquiring NeXT. (Be Inc was bought by Palm for $11 million about five years later.)