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After the Copland debacle, Apple's need for a new operating system was more dire than ever. Focus shifted briefly to the "effort" named Gershwin, which was to include the painfully elusive memory protection, among other things.

Gershwin was the code name for Apple Computer
Apple Computer

Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an United States multinational corporation which designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products....
's next-generation operating system that was proposed to follow Apple's failed Copland project for the Apple Macintosh platform.






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After the Copland debacle, Apple's need for a new operating system was more dire than ever. Focus shifted briefly to the "effort" named Gershwin, which was to include the painfully elusive memory protection, among other things.

Gershwin was the code name for Apple Computer
Apple Computer

Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an United States multinational corporation which designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products....
's next-generation operating system that was proposed to follow Apple's failed Copland project for the Apple Macintosh platform. Gershwin was supposed to be a true multi-tasking operating system and feature a reentrant implementation of the Macintosh Toolbox
Macintosh Toolbox

The Macintosh Toolbox is a set of application programming interfaces with a particular access mechanism. They implement many of the high-level features of the Mac OS....
. However, it was apparently nothing more than a code-name, and it is believed that nobody ever worked on Gershwin.