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An operating system that was being worked on by [[IBM]] and [[Apple]] Corp. in the early 90's, intended for 32 bit [[i86]] and [[PowerPC]] processors and to replace OS/2 and the [[Macintosh Finder]]. Originally an in house development by Apple called '''Pink''' but they went on to found a company called Taligent in co-operation with IBM that took over the development of the system.
'''Taligent Inc.''' was incorporated as an Apple/IBM partnership in March 1992. In the spring of 1996, Taligent became a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM and was dissolved into IBM in January 1998.


Amongst the unique features it offered at the time were:
==Products==
* Object-Oriented from the ground up, everything written in [[C++]] including hardware abstraction layers and drivers.
* [[CommonPoint]] for AIX and OS/2 (1995)
* Full [[CUA91]] compliance
* Compound Document Framework (CDF)
* Full Unicode support
* WebRunner Server Works (Dec 1996)
* Legacy emulation of older operating systems as personalities.
* Places for Project Teams (Jan 1997)
: OS/2, DOS, Windows 3.x and AIX from IBM
* International Foundation Classes
: Mac Finder and possibly Apple II Finder (II Gs) as well from Apple.
* Environment aware audio sub-system
 
The system was never delivered but parts of it were used by both Apple and IBM and licensed to companies such as HP, Sun, Netscape and Oracle. IBM had hedged its bets by continuing work on the [[Workplace OS]] and delivered it in the form of [[OS/2 PPC]] that in addition to having a native PPC OS/2 personality offered the  Windows 3.11 and [[DOS]] full personalities from Taligent
 
Some features of Taligent OS like the support for [[componentware]] and environment aware audio sub-system have not shown up in any operating system so far, other have only limited implementation, Mac OSX is referred to as an object-oriented operating system, but actually the O-O is only there as far as the windoing systeam and API are concerned, OS/2 has partial CUA91 support and MW Windows supports some CUA91 features but extremely limited. So far only [[Microsoft Windows]] has anything full support for Unicode, and even there it is not complete, the Unicode support on OS/2 and the UNIX like systems such as [[Linux]] and [[FreeBSD]] ranges from partial to laughable.


==Publications==
==Publications==
* Sean Cotter and Mike Potel: [http://www.wildcrest.com/Potel/Portfolio/InsideTaligentTechnology/InsideTaligentTechnology.htm Inside Taligent Technology] - Paperback - 1996 - ISBN-10: 0201409704 - ISBN-13: 978-0201409703 - Out of print.
* Taligent: ''Taligent's Guide to Designing Programs: Well Mannered Object-Oriented Design in C++'' - Addison-Wesley 1994, ISBN 0-201-40888-0 - available [https://root.cern.ch/TaligentDocs/TaligentOnline/DocumentRoot/1.0/Docs/books/WM/WM_1.html online]
 
* Sean Cotter; Mike Potel: ''Inside Taligent Technology'' - Addison-Wesley 1996, ISBN 0-201-40970-4 - 2 chapters available [http://www.wildcrest.com/Potel/Portfolio/InsideTaligentTechnology/InsideTaligentTechnology.htm online]
==Personel==
* Taligent: The Power of Frameworks for Windows and OS/2 Developers – 1995, ISBN 0-201-48348-3


==Personnel==
* Deborah Adair - staff technical writer
* Debbie Coutant - CEO and General Manager
* Mark Davis - Director of Core Technologies
* Mike Potel (Vice President, Technology Development)
* Mike Potel (Vice President, Technology Development)
* David Sharp
* Joyce Uggla - staff technical editor


[[Category:Operating systems]] [[Category:Companies]]
[[Category:Defunct companies]]

Latest revision as of 00:48, 3 June 2020

Taligent Inc. was incorporated as an Apple/IBM partnership in March 1992. In the spring of 1996, Taligent became a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM and was dissolved into IBM in January 1998.

Products

  • CommonPoint for AIX and OS/2 (1995)
  • Compound Document Framework (CDF)
  • WebRunner Server Works (Dec 1996)
  • Places for Project Teams (Jan 1997)
  • International Foundation Classes

Publications

  • Taligent: Taligent's Guide to Designing Programs: Well Mannered Object-Oriented Design in C++ - Addison-Wesley 1994, ISBN 0-201-40888-0 - available online
  • Sean Cotter; Mike Potel: Inside Taligent Technology - Addison-Wesley 1996, ISBN 0-201-40970-4 - 2 chapters available online
  • Taligent: The Power of Frameworks for Windows and OS/2 Developers – 1995, ISBN 0-201-48348-3

Personnel

  • Deborah Adair - staff technical writer
  • Debbie Coutant - CEO and General Manager
  • Mark Davis - Director of Core Technologies
  • Mike Potel (Vice President, Technology Development)
  • David Sharp
  • Joyce Uggla - staff technical editor
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