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A Golden Master is a reference model in hardware/software development.

The Golden Master is usually the RTM (released to manufacturing) version, and therefore the first public/commercial version. It represents the development stage of "RTM" (Release To Manufacturing), often referred to as "going gold", or "gone golden".

History

Apple, Inc. can be seen using the term in a document, first written in April 1988, describing its software versioning system.

The term is often confused with "gold master" which refers to a physical recording entity such as that sent to a manufacturing plant. Apple, Inc. used the term to describe the sending of a physical gold master disc to manufacturing in a Press Release written in March 2001.

Apple did not invent or patent the term.

See also

References

  • [1] Version Territory - Apple, Inc. 1988-04-01.
  • [2] Mac OS X 'Gold Master' Released To Manufacturing' - Apple, Inc. 2001-03-07.
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