Hi Guys,
This is something I've been researching on and off for a few years. Much as I can tell from a few sites and books:
1) Pink prototypes were running around the apple labs for a while and people seemed excited with it and developed experimental software for it. ~1988/1989 timeframe.
2) Taligent and AIM was formed with the idea of a common core O/S with sub-system service personalities and AIX, OS/2 and Pink were to be ported "to" it .. so Pink existed in some prototype form already.
3) Originally the m88k RISC processor was selected, and they were the second signup to Open88 along with DataGeneral (AViiON/CLARiiON's actually shipped) for the Jaguar system which eventually used PPC.
4) Taligent suffered from feature creep badly (!), was abandoned and the remains absorbed into IBM.
5) The compilers for TalOS were split off to form IBM's XL/ VisualAge suites (C, C++, COBOL, Smalltalk, Fortran, ..$others) which is still sold today.
6) The only TalOS that seemed to shipped in any form was branded "OS/2 Warp Connect" which if I understand this correctly is TalOS + everything except connectivity + OS/2 front end to run on ppc 603e IBM 850 workstations (My old one ended up with Obs .. Hi Obs
).
The image and some of the links that've had a nugget or two:
Roughly Drafted
Apple Gazette
Stardock
icad
LEM
I'm just really curious and wonder if anyone has an archive of it from the Apple days?