NewtonTalk.net August 2009 archive: Re: [NTLK] MagicCap and Newt

From: Ed Kummel <tech_ed_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue Aug 18 2009 - 17:52:33 EDT

Well. like I said...the memories are fuzzy.
ed
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--- On Tue, 8/18/09, Michael J. Hußmann <michael@michael-hussmann.de> wrote:

From: Michael J. Hußmann <michael@michael-hussmann.de>
Subject: Re: [NTLK] MagicCap and Newton
To: newtontalk@newtontalk.net
Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 4:26 PM

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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