It took Apple Computer chairman Gilbert Amelio 2 1/2 hours to say it, but Apple devotees last week finally got what they'd been waiting for: assurances that despite rumors to the contrary, the next generation of Macintosh computers will run most of the old software. The bad news is that it will be at least a year before the new system, code-named Rhapsody, is ready for public release.
"Backward compatibility," as they call it in the industry, had been an open question since last month, when Apple, after repeated setbacks in trying to keep its aging Mac OS ahead of rival...
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