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.[1] After failing to secure meaningful business, the company was dissolved in 1997.[2]
History
A demo of Taligent's OS features.
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.[3][4] A working demo of TalOS technology was prepared, but failed to attract business.[5]
TalOS was due to be completed in 1995, but its engineering efforts were redirected. Parts of Taligent were used in IBM's Workplace OS prototype.[1][4] The frameworks of the Taligent OS became a layer called CommonPoint that could operate on top of AIX, HP-UX, OS/2 and Windows NT.[6]
Dissolution
In spring 1996, Taligent became a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM.[6] On September 16 1997, IBM announced that it would dissolve Taligent and transition the remaining software engineers into its Santa Teresa laboratory in San Jose, California.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Taligent at the Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing. Accessed 2021-10-10.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Taligent Transition Into IBM Scheduled by Year-End, Taligent. 1997-09-16. Archived 1997-12-11.
- ↑ Learn about Taligent’s TalOS by Eugenia Loli, OSnews. 2002-08-01.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Taligent bails out of object OS by Jason Pontin, InfoWorld. 1995-05-29.
- ↑ What does Pink sound like? Designing the Audio Interface for the TalOS by Tom Dougherty, International Conference on Auditory Display. 1996.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Our history, Taligent. Archived 1996-03-28.
Books
- Inside Taligent Technology by Sean Cotter with Mike Potel, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. 1995.
