Ed Kummel (tech_ed@yahoo.com) wrote:
> Then there was some guy at Apple with a french name (phillip gasper? Or
> something like that) who was championing a different kind of operating
> system and was the pushing force behind magic cap...He later left Apple
> and formed his own company to develop his main OS that utilized a
> database as the OS...For the life of me, I can't remember his name *OR*
> the OS he designed...
That would have been Jean-Louis Gassée; the OS was BeOS. To the best of
my knowledge, he had nothing to do with MagicCap, though, neither during
his time with Apple nor afterwards.
- Michael
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