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Copland: Mac Os
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Copland is currently the only community-based distribution exclusively for PowerPC. The first version 'Community Preview' of Copland is out now with a subset of the features that a current/former Mac user would need.
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The Macintosh hardware market at the time was relatively unstable with Apple licencing MacOS to third parties and RAM prices were fluctuating wildy and as such the goals of Copland changed a number of times during development. The main feature of Copland was the !
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Apple started scheduling a big new monolithic OS release (code named Copland) around '93/'94, with another follow-on OS (Gershwin). Copland was a transitional OS meant to add new technologies (while keeping compatibility with System 7) on the way to the fully protected, preemptive, multiprocessing OS called Gershwin. The target was for Apple and Copland to beat Microsoft to market with their Windows95 project -- this lasted about a month, then a reasonable goal was set and the target date of "end of '96" (with Beta's going to developers in May of '95). Gershwin was scheduled for '98 (loosely).
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It was Hancock, more than anyone, who decided to kill Copland. After only a few months, she realised that the situation was hopeless, and given current development and engineering it would never ship at all. Her suggestion was to continue development of the existing Mac OS in order to improve its stability, while looking outside the company for a new OS to build future Macs on.
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The Press loves to point out that Copland (Apples Mac OS 8 project) is a failure. However, they seem not to understand the realities of software engineering, and do themselves a disservice each time they propagate this myth.
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