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Rhapsody on an iPad

by Dave Caolo Apr 13th 2010 at 8:00AM

No, not the music service. I'm talking about OS X's grandfather. And here it is booting on an iPad.

Developer Steven Troughton-Smith saw the video of Windows 95 running on an iPad in emulation and was inspired to try the same thing with Rhapsody -- the development OS was developed by Apple in the time between the purchase of NeXT and Mac OS X. He used a modified version of the Bochs emulator to accomplish the feat. Why? "Just had to one-up Engadget's post."

He notes that it took a good five minutes to boot, and another five just to log in. Icons and a desktop appeared that. Unfortunately, a mouse cursor was left out of the equation, which Steven noted could have been due to installing the VMWare mouse driver for Rhapsody.

This isn't the first time he's thrust an obsolete OS onto his iPad via emulation. Check out these screen shots of Windows 1.01. As for the BeOS, "I tried BeOS 5.1. It didn't load."

Drat.

Check out the gallery below for more screen shots.

Rhapsody on iPad in emulation

  • Icons!
  • Folders
  • Closeup
  • Booting up


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harry

This is a cool lens. I love using Squidoo to find iPad gadgets and apps. I was one of the lucky few to get my hands on an iPad last week and I must say, so far so good. It's an incredible piece of technology and I think it will change the way we read, watch movies, listen to music and more. I just want to find more apps and sites related to iPad, which seem to be hard to trace online. I found a great index of ipad websites on http://www.squidoo.com/ipad_tablet that lists the best apps, accessories and blogs. Any other ideas?

April 22 2010 at 7:32 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
drunknbass

you guys need to stop posting everything this media whore does.. its not even 1/2 interesting and feeds the troll's e-GO.

April 13 2010 at 3:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
John

"Icons and a desktop appeared that." What's that?

April 13 2010 at 2:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steven Fowler

Now this is more like it.

April 13 2010 at 1:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Peter

Windows 95 on an iPad?! Blasphemy!

April 13 2010 at 1:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Johnny

I remember running the first version of OS X Server which was Rhapsody. I was very glad to see they chose a different route when the first client beta came out.

April 13 2010 at 10:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Charles R Hamilton

I won't be impressed until I see Newton OS running on the iPad.

April 13 2010 at 8:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Steven Fowler

This will have to do for now:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/obi1kenobi1/2316523059/

April 13 2010 at 1:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ScottK

Apple Store is down...

April 13 2010 at 8:26 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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