Project Star Trek

Star Trek was the codename of a project to port System 7.1 to x86 computers.
The project was a collaboration between Apple Computer and , with support from Intel. It was launched in February 1992, and by the October 31 deadline, the team had managed to get System 7.1 booting on a machine. Existing Mac programs did not run, and would have to be ported individually.
The project was mired in political infighting and personnel issues. Many in the company did not believe it was a wise move. In 1993, Apple CEO John Sculley was replaced by Michael Spindler, who was not supportive of the Star Trek concept. Instead, Spindler pushed for a migration to the new PowerPC platform. Consequently, Star Trek was cancelled, without ever turning into a commercial product.
However, not all was to waste: some technologies developed for Star Trek would be used in the aforementioned PowerPC migration, as well as in .
==See also==
*Apple's transition to Intel processors, a successful transition of the Mac platform that began in 2005.
==External links==
*On Apple’s Star Trek Project at 512 Pixels (2012-12-11)
*New life for the old 'Star Trek' project at CNET (2005-06-06)
*Today in Apple history: Secret project ports Mac OS to PCs at Cult of Mac (2019-12-04)
*Star Trek: Apple’s First Mac OS on Intel Project by Tom Hormby at Low End Mac (2014-04-27)
* at Wikipedia
Category:Unreleased Apple software