Taligent

Taligent was a joint venture formed by Apple Computer and IBM in March 1992 to develop a next-generation operating system. HP announced in January 1994 that it would buy a 15% stake in Taligent.. Accessed 2021-10-10. After failing to secure meaningful business, the company was dissolved in 1997.Taligent Transition Into IBM Scheduled by Year-End, Taligent. 1997-09-16. Archived 1997-12-11.
==History==
Taligent originated in early 1986 as a project codenamed "Pink" at the Apple Advanced Technology Group. The development team was spun off around 1990-1991 into Taligent to develop TalOS, a next-generation object-oriented operating system.Learn about Taligent’s TalOS by Eugenia Loli, OSnews. 2002-08-01.Taligent bails out of object OS by Jason Pontin, InfoWorld. 1995-05-29. A working demo of TalOS technology was prepared, but failed to attract business.What does Pink sound like? Designing the Audio Interface for the TalOS by Tom Dougherty, International Conference on Auditory Display. 1996.
TalOS was due to be completed in 1995, but its engineering efforts were redirected. Parts of Taligent were used in IBM's prototype. The frameworks of the Taligent OS became a layer called that could operate on top of AIX, , and Windows NT.Our history, Taligent. Archived 1996-03-28.
===Dissolution===
In spring 1996, Taligent became a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM. On September 16 1997, IBM announced that it would dissolve Taligent and transition the remaining software engineers into its laboratory in San Jose, California.
==References==
==Books==
*Inside Taligent Technology by Sean Cotter with Mike Potel, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. 1995.
==See also==
*Copland, Apple's other unsuccessful attempt to develop successor to System 7.
==External links==
*Taligent official website (archived 1997-03-28)
* at Wikipedia
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